The Perfect Cain

For those of you who aren’t baseball fans or have been living under a rock for the past day, the name Matt Cain might mean nothing to you.  The twenty-eight year old righty is the highest paid right-handed pitcher in major leagues.  His 5 year, $112.5 million contract makes him one of the highest paid athletes in America.  And, to be perfectly honest with you, I only found out about him last year when I joined a fantasy baseball league.  For those of you who don’t know, I’m not a huge baseball fan by any means.  Yeah I’ll watch the Sox if they’re on and sure, I’ll watch playoff baseball. But watching baseball games, for me, can be about as entertaining as watching paint dry.  Or watching golf…

On Wednesday, June 13 Cain pitched a perfect game.  It was the 22^nd perfect game in major league history was the first pitched in San Francisco Giants franchise history.  The Giants defense was fantastic in helping preserve the perfect game for Cain, and Cain himself threw a career-high 14 strikeouts. His 125 pitches were the most ever thrown in a perfect game. 

Is Matt Cain married to Sarah Marshall?

I’ll admit, I only started watching in the fifth inning when my twitter feed started blowing up about the game… but the dude was a machine. I think he only faced two or three full counts all game.  He was pitching straight fire.  Still clocking pitches up in the 90s in the ninth inning shows some pretty crazy resiliency and strength.  I know I had just posted a blog about how baseball is such a slow sport, but this game was an exception.  The Giants offense exploded with 10 runs and Cain pitched 27 straight outs.  Not a boring game to watch, by any means. 

After the game, there was a huge celebration and the crowd was going nuts.  It seemed like everyone stayed in the stadium to cheer him on in the wake of the historic night. It was an inspiring moment.   A perfect game is one of the most respectable and difficult feats to accomplish in sports.  Baseball fan or not, you've gotta give this dude some serious props.  Congratulations to Matt Cain for pitching one of the best perfect games in MLB history.

By the way, doesn’t his wife look like that Forgetting Sarah Marshall actress?