San Francisco Giants' Matt Cain: Predicting His First Start Since Perfection – Fan Preview On June 13, 2012, San Francisco Giants' pitcher Matt Cain achieved perfection. I promise not to sit here and gush over it for too long, but really it's an incredible feat that I am proud to say I witnessed. In his perfect game, he struck out a record-tying 14 batters (Sandy Koufax), threw the most pitches ever in a perfect game (125), and was the first pitcher in Giants' franchise history to ... Matt Cain Perfect Game Earns Him Samurai Sword In case you hadn't heard, Matt Cain pitched a perfect game last week. 27 hitters up, 27 hitters down. 14 strikeouts, tying Sandy Koufax. What you might not know about Cain is some of his accomplishments outside the baseball diamond. One of them is being a Mizuno Brand ambassador, which I believe is one of the highest honors bestowed upon a modern American athlete by the Mizuno company. What ... Giants' Matt Cain goes for MLB pitching record Matt Cain of the San Francisco Giants will try to break the major-league record of 45 consecutive batters retired when they visit the Los Angeles Angels on Monday night. Careers are linked for Angels' Jerome Williams, Giants' Matt Cain Cain joined San Francisco's starting rotation after Williams trade in 2005. They will oppose each other Monday for first time since that season. 'This is about redemption,' Williams says. Three months after Jerome Williams was traded by the San Francisco Giants to the Chicago Cubs in 2005, Matt Cain was summoned to the Giants' starting rotation. Cain to Receive Celebratory Samurai Sword Matt Cain will receive an authentic samurai sword from Mizuno on Monday in recognition of the perfect game he threw last week. Photo Credit: Getty Images Newspapers, Schools, Breaking News, Sports, Weather, Alabama, Pelham, Alabaster, Calera, Hoover, Birmingham San Francisco Giants pitcher Matt Cain, who tossed the 22nd perfect game in Major League Baseball history June 13, spent one year of his childhood in Vincent. San Francisco Giants: Where Does Matt Cain Rank Among MLB's Best? The secret among Giants fans is that this question is no more relevant than it was last week. So a perfect game suddenly rockets Matt Cain into the top 10 pitchers in baseball? Six straight seasons of 190 IP didn't do it? How about a 2.87 ERA since the beginning of 2009? If that wasn't enough, maybe the 21.1 playoff innings without giving up an earned run. No. It took a perfect game to ... Giants-Angels Preview San Francisco Giants manager Bruce Bochy said special moments like Matt Cain's perfect game "bring teams together even more." A Giant night Matt Cain pitched the first perfect game in San Francisco Giants franchise history Wednesday night – right after he joined Dustin Johnson for a little driving exhibition at A&T Park. Johnson also took the mound and threw out the first pitch. Matt Cain gem gives Giants a perfect game at last SAN FRANCISCO — Matt Cain tossed and turned and managed all of about four hours of sleep following his history-making gem for the Giants. Perfectly understandable.
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