a rare baseball post

Mark Buehrle, Chicago White Sox, just threw a perfect game against Tampa Bay. Only the 18th perfect game in baseball history.

For those readers who don’t understand baseball, a perfect game means that no opposing batters reached base safely by any means whatsoever, whether through hits, a walk (4 bad pitches), being hit by a pitch, or through a fielding error.

27 Tampa batters were all retired, with none reaching base safely. Very, very hard to do, since it depends not just on the pitcher having a great day, but on good defensive play by his teammates as well.

Buehrle received an immediate congratulatory call from a White Sox fan named Barack Hussein Obama.

Best of all, DeWayne Wise saved the perfect game with an acrobatic robbery of what would have been a Gabe Kapler home run. This is worth savoring: