The Chicago White Sox’ Philip Humber, the Mets’ first-round draft in 2004, has thrown a perfect game against the Seattle Mariners.
Humber made his first Major League start in September 2007 against the Washington Nationals. He was traded to the Minnesota Twins in the Johan Santana deal, but his next Major League start wasn’t until August 2010 as a Kansas City Royal. His no-no came as a perfect game Saturday during the Sox’ 4-0 win at Safeco Field.
And 27 consecutive outs almost weren’t enough. Humber won the game on a strikeout of pinch hitter Brendan Ryan, but it required a 2-3 putout to put the game in the books. Humber’s low-and-outside pitch got away from catcher A.J. Pierzynski, and Ryan paused to argue the call with home plate umpirer Paul Runge before running to first base. Pierzynski threw the ball to first and Humber had his perfecto.
With the accomplishment, Humber becomes the seventh ex-Met to join our No-hitters … after they left the Mets page, and only the second ex-Met to throw a perfect game. David Cone, as a New York Yankee, threw his perfecto on July 18, 1999 on Yogi Berra Day at the old Yankee Stadium.
Perhaps it was the mojo that day from Don Larsen – the only pitcher to ever throw a World Series perfect game – throwing out the game’s ceremonial first pitch that led Cone to perfection. His retiring of the minimum 27 Montreal Expos batters was interrupted by a half-hour rain delay after the third inning, but Cone kept sending Expos back to the dugout for the Yankees’ second perfect game in as many years. Final score was Yankees 6, Expos 0.
I didn’t notice this until I started keeping track of the Mets overall record, but I used an Excel spreadsheet, and according to those calculations, the Mets only played 7,974 games (3819 -4155) . Something is definitely not right
The count is right. There used to be tie games that you are not including.
1962 40 120 1
1963 51 111 0
1964 53 109 1
1965 50 112 2
1966 66 95 0
1967 61 101 0
1968 73 89 1
1969 100 62 0
1970 83 79 0
1971 83 79 0
1972 83 73 0
1973 82 79 0
1974 71 91 0
1975 82 80 0
1976 86 76 0
1977 64 98 0
1978 66 96 0
1979 63 99 1
1980 67 95 0
1981 41 62 2
1982 65 97 0
1983 68 94 0
1984 90 72 0
1985 98 64 0
1986 108 54 0
1987 92 70 0
1988 100 60 0
1989 87 75 0
1990 91 71 0
1991 77 84 0
1992 72 90 0
1993 59 103 0
1994 55 58 0
1995 69 75 0
1996 71 91 0
1997 88 74 0
1998 88 74 0
1999 97 66 0
2000 94 68 0
2001 82 80 0
2002 75 86 0
2003 66 95 0
2004 71 91 0
2005 83 79 0
2006 97 65 0
2007 88 74 0
2008 89 73 0
2009 70 92 0
2010 79 83 0
2011 77 85 0
2012 8 6 0
Love the web site. Let’s Go Mets!
I forgot there were tie games – thanks for the clarification.
The Mets are just unlucky when it comes to stuff like this. How could anybody predict that Humber would do this? I mean if we had to trade for Johan Santana again I think it’s pretty safe to say we would do everything the same way and that there is no regrets what so ever… for all we know this is all Humber will be known for and he’ll just go back to being what everybody thinks he is and that’s an average starter who is probably your 4th or 5th option in your rotation that’s how I look at it