Take that Alex Rodriguez!
Dallas Braden left hander for the Oakland A’s made national headlines several weeks ago after getting very upset at Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez for breaking baseball etiquette by running over his mound during the gameBraden has been steaming ever since and this week challenged Arod to a fist fight.
But, today Dallas Braden shocks the baseball world by pitching a perfect game.
From Contra Costa Times:
Left-hander Dallas Braden became the second Oakland A's pitcher and 19th in Major League Baseball history to pitch a perfect game Sunday, retiring 27 consecutive batters in beating the Tampa Bay Rays 4-0 Sunday.
Braden, who had never even pitched a complete-game victory, threw 109 pitches — 77 strikes — in becoming the first man to throw a perfect game for Oakland since Jim ``Catfish'' Hunter on May 8, 1968, who turned the feat against the Minnesota Twins (also a 4-0 outcome) at the Coliseum in the first year the A's played in the city.
A crowd of 12,228 witnessed Braden's feat compared to just 6,298 for Hunter's perfect game.
Braden struck out six in the game, and the closest thing to a hit was the first batter. Tampa's Jason Bartlett led off the game with a line drive behind third base that was snared by Kevin Kouzmanoff.
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