Usually on Sunday, we here at Outside the Boxscore name our, "Winner of the Week", whether it be a person/team/or inanimate object.
Here is this week's winner: Roy Halladay's Perfect Game
On a day that focused on the beginning of the Stanley Cup Finals and the Lakers going back to their third straight NBA Finals, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay shifted our attention to the baseball diamond as he pitched the 20th perfect game in Major League Baseball history.
Halladay who has been argued as the best pitcher in Major League Baseball only needed 115 pitches to rid the Phillies of the Florida Marlins. Halladay who became the second pitcher this month to pitch a perfect game (Oakland's Dallas Braden did it on May 9th against the Tampa Bay Rays) was at his finest in this affair.
Halladay became the second Philadelphia Phillie to pitch a perfect game since Jim Bunning did it back in 1964 against the New York Mets. The last hitter that Halladay faced was Florida pinch-hitter Ronny Paulino who grounded out to third-baseman Juan Castro which clinched perfection for Mr. Halladay.
This isn't the first time that Roy Halladay has chased perfection, during his rookie season with the Toronto Blue Jays, he almost pitched a no-hitter against the Detroit Tigers but it was eventually broken up by former Tiger Bobby Higginson.
So, congratulations to Roy Halladay, your perfect game is our, "Winner of the Week".
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Roy Halladay Picture Courtesy of the Associated Press
Winner of the Week: Roy Halladay's Perfect Game
