Dallas Braden throws the 19th perfect game in history!

[Providence A's]

A special Mother's Day for Braden (his mom died of cancer when he was in high school). It was the A's first one in 42 years. A's win 4 - 0 vs. TB. He had 6 k's. Sweeney, Kouz, and Powell had 2 hits. Barton had 3 hits and 2 runs.

Tampa Bay Rays vs. Oakland Athletics - Recap - May 09, 2010 - ESPN

[Kingdom]

Successfully stood up to a douche bag, and throws a no hitter. It's a good year so far for Dallas.

[Providence A's]

Dallas Braden

Dallas Braden threw a perfect game against the Rays on Sunday.
And this makes Alex Rodriguez's comment about Braden getting his "15 minutes of fame" over their mound confrontation downright hilarious. Braden struck out six in the outing, with the final out coming on a grounder to shortstop off the bat of Gabe Kapler. Any perfect game is impressive, but doing it against a team that entered the day 22-8 makes it exponentially more memorable. The perfect game is the major's first since Mark Buehrle did it last July.

That makes me chuckle.

[DirtyKash]

I got a little thrown off by the thread title at first. I thought there had been 19 perfect games thrown on Mother's Day. Heh.

[Providence A's]

Yea, I thought of that...I dunno, someone can edit it and put that part in parentheses or something.

[DirtyKash]

Braden is the first pitcher named after a U.S. city with a population of over 1 million, to throw a perfect game.

[Kingdom]

Names have been changed to protect the innocent, but this is from one of our posters:

"All I know is don't ever, EVER, tell me A-Rod hasn't walked the walk. My man signed a $250 million contract. Braden doesn't have enough money to pay A-Rod's butler's salary." WIN. And he shot down everyone on my previous status. I would call that an epic win. Love you bro. Jorge Stevenson talking to his brother, Tom Stevenson.

[Kingdom]

I love how people take something so seriously that doesn't affect their lives the slightest bit. It's almost like those two people are ARod's lackies. Maybe they are.

[Providence A's]

Wait what? Who are those two people?

[HollywoodLeo]

Well, that was fun.

[Kingdom]

Everyone can get along, A-Rod takes high road, praises Braden on perfect game - MLB - SI.com

[Tobywan]

Kudos to Braden for making his grandma proud. The Rays in elite company AGAIN, not exactly the good kind.

[redsfan28]

Braden to A-Rod: SUCK IT!

[HollywoodLeo]

Braden to A-Rod: SUCK IT!

A-Rod to Braden: Thank you for helping my team out.