Imagine throwing a baseball 110 times. Now imagine that every throw you made was where you wanted to throw it. Not only that, you threw balls that were not straight, some curved and slid. Picture over 30,000 people watching your every move, and nine men with bats trying to hit the ball away from seven friends behind you trying to catch it. Okay, you faced each of the nine men at least three-times. Eleven of those times those guys couldn't even touch the ball and every other time they hit it to one of your friends. Oh yeah, you'd never thrown 110 balls and had just been demoted a month before. Your father was there, too. Which would be no big deal, except of course if this was the first game he had ever seen you pitch. No big deal right?
Well San Francisco Giants' Pitcher Jonathan Sanchez did just that. He threw a no hitter on July 10, 2009. The first one by a Giant since the average home in America was $12K and Gerald Ford was president. He also did this with a rookie catcher behind the plate and on the same team with four all-star pitchers, three Cy Young award winners, the highest paid pitcher, arguably the best left-handed pitcher ever, and the best pitcher right now in baseball. Simple, huh? Congratulations, Jonathan Sanchez.
