Congrats to Philip Humber, member of the AL
Central's White Sox, for his perfect game on Saturday. He is a friend that I stood next to at a wedding and his performance on Saturday was only matched by his humility. He is a great guy, hard worker, and faithful man. Hats off to you Philip!
On another level, congrats to Brian Runge, the umpire behind the plate who
learned what not to do from Jim Joyce, who blew Armando Galarraga's
perfect game in 2010 with a missed call. Galarraga went to face his 27th batter, pitching what arguably could be considered the best game ever pitched. On his 83rd pitch (The 83 pitches thrown before the blown call would have been the fewest pitches in a perfect game since 1908), Jason Donald hit a ground ball to first base, Cabrera routinely through the ball to Galarraga as he covered first base, he beat the runner to the bag
and Jim Joyce called him safe.
Brian Runge did better than Jim Joyce did as he called Brendon Ryan
out on strikes on a questionable check swing strike three. Runge didn't
even leave room for questioning the 1B umpire and made the perfect game
official by pointing and calling him out. This was appropriate in light of Joyce's 2010 debacle and covers some of the pain that Joyce, Galarraga and all Detroit fans experienced on the first 28 out perfect game.
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