On Wednesday, Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants pitched the 22nd perfect game in MLB history. He set down all 27 Astro batters winning the game 10-0. It is the first perfect game since Philip Humber's April 21st this year. His perfect was also the 277th no-hitter in MLB history. This is the Giants' first perfect game in team history and first no-hitter for the Giants since Jonathan Sanchez in 2009. This is only the third year ever with 2 perfect games in one year. In 2010 when Halladay and Braden did it and in 1880 when Lee Richmond and Mike Montgomery did it. Cain tied the record for strikeouts in a perfect game with 14 tying him and Sandy Koufax. In the game Cain record 14 strikeouts, 7 flyoyts and 6 groundouts. Cain also set a record with 125 pitches most in any perfect game. This is also the 7th perfect game in the past 8 years. Cain's perfect game makes it 5 no-hitters on season most to this point of the season since 1917 when they had 5 May 6. In 1917 the year ended with 6 no-hitters. This year has a chance to have 7 or 8 since we are only about half way done with the season. Cain joins Philip Humber, Jered Weaver, Johan Santana and the 6 Mariners (Kevin Milwood, Charlie Furbush, Stephen Pryor, Lucas Luetge, Brandon League and Tom Wilhelmsen) to throw a no-hitter this year. The Mariners picthers pitched only the 10th ever combined no-hitter in MLB history on June 8th. According to Bill James' game score statistic, Cain's perfect game is tied with Sandy Koufax's perfect game for the most dominate in the perfect game in the MLB modern-era. Cain has a strong right now to win the NL Cy Young Award and possibly the NL Pitching Triple Crown he has 8 wins (tied for 4th in NL) with a ERA of 2.18 (2nd in the NL) and has 96 strikeouts (2nd in the NL).
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