From the Porch: Perfect Game

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Giants 10, Astros 0 at AT&T Park

HOU (26-36) 000 000 000  0 0 0 !!!!!!!!!!!!
SF (36-27) 232 120 00x  10 15 0

WP: Cain (8-2)
LP: Happ (4-7)
SV: Ha! None
HR: Cabrera (5), Belt (2), Blanco (4)

Cain: 9ip 0h 0er 0bb 14k 2.18 era
Happ: 3.1ip 11h 8er 1bb 5k 5.338 era

In the NL West: Dodgers lost to Angels, Arizona lost to Texas, Colorado lost to Oakland, San Diego beat Seattle. Giants 3.5 back.

Comments: Jesus Holy Effin' Christ, Matt Cain just threw a perfect game, the first in the 130-year history of the Giants. But let us review. This was the most dominant perfect game in MLB history by Four Fucking Runs. Perfect games? Christy Matthewson? Nope. Gaylord Perry? Nope. Juan Marichal? Nope. Cy Fucking Young? Hasn't had pefect game for 108 years. Matthew von Steely Eyed Missile Man? Fuckin' A, Cotton. And it was not only the pitching (so many no-hitters and, it seems, perfect games are like 1-0 or 2-0; Giants put together a perfect pitching game and a perfect offensive game. There has never been a game this dominant, ever. The last out was made by Joaquin Arias on a tough play, and due to a brilliant move by Bruce Bochy to substitute him for Panda in the 7th. And in one of the great, great, great, great plays of all time, Gregor Blanco in the 7th made an impossible, diving, Triples Alley catch -- perfect games and no hitters always crazy catch, but never, ever, ever, ever anything like that. And Melky also made a ridiculous play in the sixth that should have been the play of the game sans Blanco. Cain is simply a massive presence, a monstah, a Force of Nature. He's a wrecking machine, he'll knock you to tomorrow. Y'know, the thing about Cain, he's got lifeless eyes, black eyes, like a doll's eyes. When he comes after ya, he doesn't seem to be livin' until he bites ya, and those black eyes roll over white, and then -- aww, then you hear that terrible high-pitch screamin'

Baseball quote of the day: "I'm your new catcher and you just got lesson number one: don't think, it can only hurt the ballclub." (Crash Davis)

Next game: Astros vs. Giants, 12:45 p.m. PDT Thursday, June 14 at AT&T Park. Rodriguez, LHP (5-4, 3.27) vs. Zito, LHP (5-3, 3.24). TV: CSN-BA