Roy Halladay Throws Perfect Game in Marlins 1-0 Loss to Phillies

[Ramp]

Simply perfect.

[Namaste]

Halladay owes it all to the Marlins players for standing there like statues.


And their having a concert to celebrate.

Weeeeeee!!!!!

[Ralph]

it sucked miris dick

[THE_REAL_MIBS]

So glad our ice cold offense results in history.

[MiamiHomer]

I'm done making game threads.

[Mainge]

Dammit.

[The Hanram]

I'm of the opinion that if we are going to lose, we might as well make history.

That was awesome.

[FishFanInPA]

And by the way Daft, i'm going to throw a fact at you....I know that's a foreign concept.

6 of the 11 K's were looking.

[Hanley4MVP2]

they sucked a big one out there, but the phils d play fabulous

[Goodfella]

Mike Stanton would have gone 3-4 with 2 homeruns against him today.

[Namaste]

And by the way Daft, i'm going to throw a fact at you....I know that's a foreign concept.

6 of the 11 K's were looking.

And that proves what point?


Did it ever occur to your thick skull that they weren't swinging because he was tossing filthy pitches all night?
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MIAMI -- Josh Johnson was very good on Saturday night. What the Marlins' ace wasn't was perfect. He needed to be on a night that will go down as one for the ages.

Roy Halladay, already regarded as one of the best of his era, cemented his legacy by tossing a perfect game against the Marlins.

On a night of razor-thin margin for error, Halladay made an unearned run in the third inning hold up. By the slimmest of margins, the Phillies won, 1-0, in front of 25,086 at Sun Life Stadium who witnessed history.

Halladay retired all 27 Marlins he faced, striking out 11.

Halladay joins Oakland's Dallas Braden to throw a perfect game in 2010. The Marlins had been no-hit once in their history, by Ramon Martinez on July 14, 1995.

In a battle of aces, there was little margin for error. As fate would have it, a miscue proved costly for Florida.

Johnson had a string of 20 consecutive scoreless innings snapped in the third inning, when Wilson Valdez scored an unearned run. Valdez singled with one out, and he raced home from first when Chase Utley's line drive to center field was misplayed by Cameron Maybin, who had the ball deflect off his glove.

Utley dashed to third on the error. Johnson was able to minimize the damage. After issuing an intentional walk to Ryan Howard, the right-hander struck out Jayson Werth and Raul Ibanez.

Johnson worked seven innings, and struck out six. His 121 pitches were a career high.

Before Friday's game, Johnson said he felt Halladay was the best right-handed pitcher in baseball. Halladay showed why in historical fashion.

20th perfect game in the history of baseball. Halladay probably had good stuff tonight.

[Swifty]

Good. I hate this team so much.

[Beef]

With a good week, we can catch the Nats

[Fish Tank Frenzy]

Im not trying to take away anything from Halladay but that umpire surely did help him. The hitters especially, Wes Helms the "pro" should've known with 2 strikes anything close to the plate was gonna get called a strike.

This really was an amazing game. If Maybin makes that catch in CF, I wonder how long Manuel would've let Halladay go?

[Party]

I was there.
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What do you want from a line-up that consisted of Maybin, Hayes, CC and the Pitcher?

That is one helluva blackhole.