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Power Perfect
He threw a masterful Perfect Game against one of the leagues top offensive squads. New York walked into San Francisco riding a small streak which was continued by Schilling's dominating performance. He faced the minimum of 27 batters as not one player managed to reach first base safely. Schilling struck out 13 batters and was never in trouble the whole night. He sawed off 4 bats and there was not one hard hit ball for San Francisco in the game. What makes this accomplishment so awesome is that it came against a SF offence which up until recently was 2nd in the league only to Toronto. SF boasts the likes of Barry Bonds, Jim Thome, Cal Ripken Jr. and Brian Jordan, but they could do nothing on this night. Schilling simply had his stuff rocking, throwing hard on every pitch he just didn't back down. He only needed 108 pitches, 82 of which were strikes. He was hitting his spots all night and the splitter was mowing batters down and was the cause of 11 out of 13 SO's. Since coming over to New York, Curt has turned around his season and has helped New York grab the wild card spot and stay with the powerhouse Toronto Blue Jays. Curt also followed up his perfect game performance buy leading the Yanks to another win in Seattle going 7 strong innings allowing 7 hits. He picked up his 10th win of the season against Seattle. New York is gearing up for the stretch run by playing their best ball right now. Since acquiring Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling they have climbed the standings and are now the 3rd best team in the league. Just before they acquired the two aces they were 4th in the Eastern Division and below .500 |
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