Only 23 pitchers in baseball history have thrown a perfect game. And Philip Humber is one of them.
Humber did not have a long or illustrious big league career outside of that one spectacular performance against the Seattle Mariners in April 2012. And because of it, his perfecto — one of baseball's ultimate individual accomplishments — is rarely discussed.
Well, we sought to rectify that mild injustice on the latest edition of the White Sox Talk Podcast, highlighting Humber's 27-up-27-down afternoon as part of the "Distant Replay" series. It was a fun conversation about Humber, the game, the broadcast and all other sorts of related stuff.