Felix Hernandez plays for the Seattle Mariners. From a pitching perspective, that just about necessitates perfection. Hernandez leads the world in the unofficial stat of 1-0 complete game shutouts (three of his four shutouts this year have been 1-0, now two in his last three starts), and has also thrown one-, two-, and three-hitters this year as well. Felix has been just about as good as it gets without quite attaining perfection. Until now.
The crooked cap-wearing badass that is Felix Hernandez did it his way, too. He struck out 12 en rout to mowing the Rays down with relative ease. The scariest moment came when Sam Fuld led off the game with a drive to right center, forcing Eric Thames to make an excellent catch. Brenden Ryan (as he is wont to do) combined great concentration and fantastic range to deny B.J. Upton a cheap infield hit in the 7th, and that was it for drama. He struck out the side in the 6th and 8th innings, and finished the feat with a nasty 92 mph change th...
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August 15, 2012
