I realize this is "old" news now but I didn't hear about it until I was coming home from my daughter's college graduation tonight.
From NPR with video-
Oakland A's pitcher Dallas Braden is the 26-year old southpaw who on Sunday joined the select group of Major League Baseball pitchers who've pitched perfect games.
And not just that, he's the first to ever do it against a team with MLB's best record at the time of the game, in this case, the Tampa Bay Rays.
Before Sunday, Braden was perhaps best known to baseball fans as the pitcher who upbraided Yankees superstar Alex Rodriguez after A-Rod as a base-runner took the shortcut across the pitcher's mound to return to first base from third after a foul ball.
All Things Considered host Robert Siegel talked with Braden Monday. Robert asked Braden if he thought about the possibility of a perfect game as the outing progressed
More here-
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2010/05/perfect_game_dallas_braden_lo.html
The list of the 19 perfect games is here-
http://www.baseball-almanac.com/pitching/piperf.shtml
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