White Sox pitching prospect Zack Burdi didn’t realize how lucky he was when he arrived at his suite for a Sox game when he was 14 years old.
His friend’s father was a rep for a beer company that owned the suite, and his annual invitation for tickets happened to fall on July 23, 2009, Burdi said. As Mark Buehrle carried his perfect game into the fourth and then fifth innings, Burdi began to understand his good fortune.
"You don’t really grasp how special the moment you're in is until that fifth, sixth, seventh, where everyone in the stadium can feel (it)," Burdi said.