Don Larsen

On this date in 1956, Don Larsen of the Yankees pitches the only perfect game in World Series history beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0.

"No, why should I?" - when asked if he ever gets tired of talking about his perfect game.

David Wells

On this date in 1998, David Wells of the Yankees pitches a perfect game beating the Twins 4-0.

"As of this writing, fifteen men in the history of organized baseball have ever thrown a perfect game. Only one of those men did it half-drunk, with bloodshot eyes, monster breath and a raging skull-rattling hangover. That would be me."

Don Larsen

On this date in 1956, Don Larsen of the Yankees pitches the only perfect game is World Series history beating the Brooklyn Dodgers 2-0.

"No, why should I?" - when asked if he ever gets tired of talking about his perfect game

Sandy Koufax

On this date in 1965, Sandy Koufax throws a perfect game beating the Cubs and Bob Hendley's one-hit effort, 1-0.

"A foul ball was a moral victory." - Don Sutton

So Felix Hernandez either will or will not throw another perfect game tonight

You know, a one in two chance.

He either will or he won't.

50% in my book.

Pretty sure about this.

You'd be crazy not to watch.

So stoked about tonight's no-hitters and perfect games!

Thinking about inviting people over!

Harvey Haddix

On this date in 1959, Harvey Haddix of the Pirates takes a perfect game into the 13th inning against the Braves only to lose 1-0.

"Hey, you're pitching a pretty good game." - Braves catcher, Del Crandall to Haddix when Haddix came to bat in the ninth inning

David Wells

On this date in 1998, David Wells pitched a perfect game beating the Twins 4-0.

"As of this writing, fifteen men in the history of organized baseball have ever thrown a perfect game. Only one of those men did it half-drunk, with bloodshot eyes, monster breath and a raging skull-rattling hangover. That would be me."

Real smart!

Pouring water on someone with an electrical device on their head!

Good thing the headset miraculously shorted out a split-second before he was electrocuted!

I'd never throw a perfect game for the White Sox!

Not worth it!

Tom Browning

On this date in 1988, Tom Browning pitches a perfect game against the Dodgers striking out eight and allowing only eight balls to be hit out of the infield in a 1-0 victory.

"I don't know if the kids played with it or not. I think it's in the woods behind our house. It didn't have anything on it, and it was just sitting there. I guess the kids needed a ball to play with." - on what happened to the ball from the game

Sandy Koufax

On this date in 1965, Sandy Koufax pitches a perfect game as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 1-0.

"Pitching is the art of instilling fear."

Profound clubhouse thoughts

"We had a number of chances and they had a number of chances."

1 star out of 5 on the "cliche-meter": The only game this doesn't apply to is a "perfect game".

Harvey Haddix

On this date in 1959, Harvey Haddix of the Pirates takes a perfect game into the 13th inning against the Braves only to lose 1-0.

"Dear Harvey, Tough sh*t." - A letter received by Haddix from a Texas A & M fraternity after the game

David Wells

On this day in 1998, David Wells of the Yankees pitches a perfect game beating the Twins 4-0.

"As of this writing, fifteen men in the history of organized baseball have ever thrown a perfect game. Only one of those men did it half-drunk, with bloodshot eyes, monster breath and a raging, skull-rattling hangover. That would be me."

Milt Pappas

Born on today's date, Milt Pappas.

"Any of the four pitches could've been called a strike and the last two were definitely strikes. Froemming came to the mound after Stahl walked and I called him every name that I knew in the English language. When I ran out of names, I started calling him names in Greek." - On his claim that home plate umpire, Bruce Froemming denied him a perfect game on 9-2-72 by awarding a walk to Larry Stahl with two outs in the ninth inning after he had retired 26 straight batters.

Jennifer always come through!

Ok, but about the "taxes" thing.

It just gets worse!

I bet he drives a foreign car!

Jim Joyce is scheduled to be behind the plate tomorrow!

People are talking about buying tickets to the game tomorrow just to boo (hopefully that is all) him. I just got an email from a friend who is only a very casual fan and also very mild-mannered who I see just learned a whole lot of curse words and insults today and wants to go to the game tomorrow.

Uggh.

I know this. Bud freaking HATES Jim Joyce now and would love nothing more than to club him over the head with an instant replay camera.

Plus when they get around to Country Joe's disciplinary hearing, Country Joe has the ultimate comeback:

"Not as bad as that guy!"

That would have been great to have seen Jason Donald argue the call.

We gotta make these perfect games more difficult!

It's getting too easy!

Oh no! Wainwright throws tomorrow!

Come on MLB! Do something!

David Wells

Born today, David Wells.

In 1998, Wells pitched a perfect game against the Twins. In his autobiography, Wells said he was "hung over" while pitching that game. Frankly, it is my understanding that Wells pitched many games "hung over" so I don't know that this is very noteworthy.

His autobiography also says that he strengthened his pitching arm as a kid by throwing rocks at homeless people.

(stunned silence)

What the?!

As much as it pains me to say so, maybe A-Rod is not so bad of a guy after all.