Flirting with Perfection: Ten Guys Who Could Throw a Perfect Game in 2011

The best game club continues to be one of Baseball's most exclusive clubs. Considering that Cy Young threw the very first modern-day perfect game in 1905, only 17 other men have accomplished the identical.

Fresh off Mark Buehrle's perfect game last year, Dallas Braden and Roy Halladay upped the ante this year. Braden joined the club May well 9 , 2010 against the Tampa Bay Rays, whilst Halladay perfected a near-perfect season 20 days later from the Florida Marlins.

The feat marked the first time two perfect games have been thrown in the same year, let alone exactly the same month. It appeared how the list was going to have its third member in 2010, but Three days later, Armando Galarraga's bid with perfection was cut brief after Jim Joyce blew the game-winning call.

With a new season ahead of us, it is time to look at ten guys who could join among baseball's most heralded lists. I'm not going to count Roy Halladay out from repeating soon after he accompanied his ideal game with a no-hitter within the playoffs, but this list will concentrate on guys that have each won no-hitters or have come close inside the past.

Throwing a no-hitter takes a lot of luck along with a little bit of skill, and Armando Galarraga showed that you don't have to lead the league in hits and walks permitted to come close, but it sure does turn it into a lot easier.