page_title: Philip Humber's perfect game
section_title: Aftermath
hierarchical_section_title: Philip Humber's perfect game / Aftermath
caption_attribution_description: 2012 04 Seattle Baseball Weekend 321
context_page_description: Philip Humber of the Chicago White Sox pitched a perfect game against the Seattle Mariners by retiring all 27 batters he faced on Saturday, April 21, 2012, as the White Sox defeated the Mariners 4–0. It was the 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history and the third by a member of the White Sox. It was Humber's first career complete game, although he had come close to achieving no-hitters on several occasions at several levels of organized baseball. The game was played in Seattle and broadcast regionally by Fox Sports in the two teams' metropolitan areas.
  Humber, a top pitching prospect from a Texas high school, attended Rice University, where he had a successful career. A high draft pick by the New York Mets, he debuted in MLB for the Mets before headlining a group of four prospects traded to the Minnesota Twins for Johan Santana. After two ineffective seasons with the Twins, Humber pitched a season for the Kansas City Royals. Acquired on waivers by the Chicago White Sox in 2011, Humber had his first successful season in an MLB starting rotation. The perfect game, Humber's 30th career start and his 2nd of the 2012 season, totaled 96 pitches.
context_section_description: It was the 21st perfect game in MLB history and the first since Roy Halladay's perfect game on May 29, 2010. It was the third perfect game in White Sox history (tying them with the Yankees for most perfect games) after Charlie Robertson's (who threw the only other perfect game in April in MLB history) on April 30, 1922, and Mark Buehrle's on July 23, 2009, and the 18th no-hitter in White Sox history (tying them with the Red Sox for second most no-hitters). It was Humber's second start of the 2012 season and first career complete game.
  Humber went 1–0 with a 0.63 ERA in ​14 ¹⁄₃ innings while striking out 16 over 2 starts that week, including the perfect game, resulting in his selection as American League Player of the Week for the week ending April 22. He received a congratulatory phone call from President Barack Obama, a noted White Sox fan, and received news that his perfect game would be memorialized with a plaque at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. Humber made an appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman on April 23, where he read the Top Ten List.
  Humber became the seventh former member of the Mets to go on to throw a no-hitter for another team. The other six are Nolan Ryan, Tom Seaver, Mike Scott, Dwight Gooden, Hideo Nomo, and David Cone. The New York Mets, at the time of Humber's perfect game, had never had a no-hitter thrown by a player in the 50-year history of the franchise (Johan Santana has since accomplished this feat).
  The Mariners went hitless for the third time in franchise history and this was the first time that no Mariner reached base. However, they went on to pitch two no-hitters in 2012, both of which took place at Safeco Field and winning both games 1–0. One of them was the first perfect game in franchise history, by Félix Hernández, making them the first team to be on both the losing and winning end of a perfect game in the same season, and marking the first time two perfect games were thrown in the same park in the same season.
caption: Humber being swarmed by teammates after the perfect game, the first of two to be pitched at Safeco Field in the 2012 MLB season.
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