9 IP, 0 R, 0 H, 0 BB

[gridlore]

Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history, shutting down the majors' hottest team and leading the Oakland Athletics to a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.

Braden threw his arms in the air after Gabe Kapler grounded out to shortstop for the final out. The closest the Rays got to a hit was Jason Bartlett's liner to third leading off the game. Evan Longoria tried to bunt against Braden leading off the fifth, drawing boos from the small crowd.

"It's without a doubt a team effort," Braden said. "You got eight guys out there chasing balls and knocking balls down for me. So this is ours, not just mine, this is ours."

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/05/09/SPA11DBV1F.DTL&type=sports&tsp=1#ixzz0nU1c69fi

I caught the last two innings of this. Wow.

Comments

[kevin-standlee.livejournal.com]

Wow indeed. I found out about it while riding the San Joaquin home from my rail joy-ride to Bakersfield, because the train crews were talking back and forth about it and I had my ham radio on tuned to the railroad frequencies.

How much you want to bet a lot more people than who actually turned the stiles will claim in the future to have been there and seen it in person?