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Buehrle's near-perfection, punctuated

By Buster Olney

Wednesday, July 29, 2009

The tension in the Metrodome thickened in the bottom of the sixth inning Tuesday night. And after Carlos Gomez fouled out and Nick Punto grounded out, the home crowd murmured uncomfortably, because Mark Buehrle was doing it again. He was just 10 outs away from doing something nobody in the history of baseball had ever done: a second perfect game, and, more incredibly, a second consecutive perfect game. He had retired the first 17 Twins he faced with the same frantic pace, and just as the Rays n ...

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