We were getting cable stuff done that day. I told the cable guy, "if you cut our cable off before this game ends, we're going to have some problems" and he laughed and watched the last two innings with our family.
@@강윾 The Mariners were formed in 1977, so the day this happened it was 119 games into their 35th season. So 34 years and 119 games after the 34th year.
@@rorygarhart736 I used to love baseball as a kid in the 80's. I was so obsessed with baseball cards and my dad took my to a few Dodger games back then. I still have a lot of my old cards he found strewn about my room he saved for me. Then I fell in love w/ the early 90's Lakers, and I never really got back into baseball. But it's a beautiful game, and I always check in yearly to see feats like this. It's not my thing anymore, but I'd love to go back to a game with my dad. Maybe we'll do that this year now that we have Ohtani.
While Sims is certainly not the best sports commentator, I believe that he his comfortably above average for baseball guys and agree that here he was amazing. Even more telling of how bad most are compared to him, check out his call vs the White Sox call of Phil Humber's perfect game earlier that year. The White Sox call of their guy's PG was... just horrible -- pretty much just "Humber has thrown a perfect game" in a bland, unexcited, disingenuous voice. Sims gave a very good call embodying a respect for the opposing player and team's accomplishment as it pertains to sports and MLB history.
@@BoBnfishy in 4 years it'll still be true. In 100 years it'll still be true. It'll always be true that you commented 4 years after the original comment.
@@meganb.2249 yes it does, but the point of the changeup is to make it look like a fastball, however it ends up at the plate slower. So if a hitter is timing your fastball well you can throw a changeup to mess up their timing and hopefully get them to swing early.
@@I_The_Unguided So you're saying by definition a changeup can be thrown with a fastball grip? Sorry, I guess I always thought of the changeup as its own pitch. :/
it doesn't matter how many times i watch this, by the 6th inning I'm smiling so much my face starts to hurt. Still here 8 years later lol. One of my favorite calls of the game is at 4:30. Struck. Him. Out. *YEAH!* That's not a commentators voice, that's a fans voice. Just another reason I love Dave Sims working the TV broadcast.
Yeah but what's weird is that I still keep getting butterflies in my stomach every time I watch this up until the last out of course even though I have already seen this a lot and I already know what is going to happen. Maybe because I'm that much of a fan and also considering that other things could've happened, like the Rays getting on base in the last inning. Oh what would be worse is if the Rays would've hit a solo homer to tie the game in the last inning on what would've been the final out of the game and then the game goes into extras, the Mariners put in a new pitcher, the new pitcher gives up three runs in the tenth, the Mariners score two runs in the bottom of the tenth giving the Mariners fans hope that they will at least win the the game, the Mariners choke, the Rays end up winning the game five to three, the mariners fans go home crushed and heartbroken, and the game goes down as one of the worst moments in Seattle Mariners history. But at least that didn't happen. Go M's!
I remember catching the last few innings. I came home between football practices and had it on in the background. Suddenly I heard "Felix Hernandez perfect through six!" and I decided I would miss my afternoon practice. Definitely worth it.
What's weird is... a perfect game is REALLY RARE... and I saw 2 of them at Safeco Field. And I've only been to 6 MLB games in my life. A statistician should figure the odds of only going to 6 games ever and seeing 2 perfect games. Then factor in at same stadium. Then factor in both the same year.
You are very lucky I've been to roughly 25-30 Mariners games throughout my life and I can recall them winning only like 3-4 of those games. Why cant I have your luck?
There have been over 210000 mlb games played so far, the exact number is not given so we'll use 210000. There have been 23 perfect games, so that means the odds of seeing a perfect game on any given day is 23/210000 or about 1 in 9130. There are approximately 15 stadiums played at every day, so if a perfect game was to happen every day, the odds would be 1/15. Seeing 2 at the same stadium would make it 1/225. Multiply by 9130 and the odds are sitting at around 1 in 2054348. There have been 23 perfect games over 145 years. That's about 1 perfect game every 6.3 years. Multiply by 6.3 and the odds are sitting at around 1 in 12942392. Since you went to 6 mlb games, the odds become 6 to 12942392, so around 1 in 2157065. However, you saw 2 perfect games in those 6 mlb games, so we square the previous number. Final Odds of you seeing 2 perfect games over 6 MLB games in the same year in the same stadium is: 1 in 4,652,931,139,877 So if everyone did what you did, only 1 person out of 4.7 trillion people (if we had that many people) would have that same experience. Go buy a lottery ticket bro
Complete games are rarer now than ever, primarily because teams now understand the link between IP and UCL injuries. Rarely do guys throw more than 100 pitches. So you'd think, then, that combined perfect games should've happened by now, right? Thing is, the three true outcome sport of walk, strikeout, homer makes it hard. Usually there's a walk at some point. No pitcher is the same. You might have a Gerrit Cole type get you 6 innings into it, but a soft tossing guy who lives on the edges comes in to face someone who has resolved not to expand the zone, and you get a walk.
+BlitzTaifun / DragonScales I actually watched a Mariners-Yankees game in the old Kingdome with Randy Johnson vs. Jimmy Key. Awesome, classic pitchers duel that both pitchers went 9 and ended 1-0 (Yankees won, dammit)!
I'm a casual Red Sox fan and don't know much about Felix Hernandez, but god damn this was cool. Went back and watched the full last few innings, and it gives you a much better sense how completely locked in he was, just rolling with one great pitch after another, barely a pause between them. You get the sense he could've kept it going for a couple more innings at least. Incredible :)
And it's not like every other pitcher who got a perfect game against the Astros. This was done against a team who got 90 wins that season and almost made the playoffs
Just as I expected, Astros fans now acting exactly like Cubs fans 2 years ago: roaming around the Internet and talking shit about how Astros just won the championship. 2017 WS title can't change the fact that Astros sucked from 2007 to 2014. And yeah, 2012 Astros team finished with 55-107 record, the worst of all MLB.
2008, the year of Hurricane Ike, was surprisingly the last time they had a winning record until 2015. And they had the same number of wins in both years, 86.
@@2B2Mgt Yeah it doesn't help much that after 2005 the team's owner wasn't interested anymore and wanted to sell them, and thus was unwilling to spend any money. Nope. Definitely not a problem. Also I think the Astros have had what? 1 perfect game against them? Against a lineup that had 1 single player who was still around in 2017? Also who would you rather listen to? Astros fans bragging about their title (that actually happened recently unlike most teams) or Yanks/Sox fans who don't even watch a majority of the games, yet pretend they're all wizards?
He should've been with the dodgers the mariners never won a world series the braves were ok but he just had to leave before they made it to the world series and became world series Champs of 2021.
Me too. My dad is a hardcore Mariners fan; I've never seen him get so excited for baseball. Fingers crossed that we'll make it to the World Series this year.
i moved here this year and both mariners games i went to they won, first one i was right next to trout and the second one i saw Marco gonzales pitch 5 1/3 no hit innings and healy hit 2 three run shots to beat the white sox. I'm a card's fan though so i won't get to see them much around here sadly
I still watch this video once a year. Perfect game is already legendary but add in fans chanting “king” throughout the game makes it one of my favorite videos on RUclips.
This was a pure work of art, The King Felix #34, 34 years, thats destiny, but in Seattle, even 100+ wins doesn't get a championship, this man deserved a better team, but had loyalty you don't see anymore.
Proto Man I don't know man, same old Mariners I guess. I still believe in them though. But I don't feel good at all about this years pitching rotation.
Ah, the one time I've ever been happy that blackout rules existed - MLB Network's main game was Nats-Giants (and a pretty good one at that), but we got to see this instead.
This is amazing!! I am not a Mariners fan, but this made me cry at the end when he put his arms up in the air, thanking God I am sure. What an awesome feeling that had to be!
@@cashecboast Crazy that it was nearly 11 years in between perfect games. From 2009 to 2012 I think there were 6 in total. Dallas Braden for the A's Mark Buerhle for the White Sox Roy Halladay for the Phillies Phillip Humber for the the White Sox Matt Cain for the Giants & Felix Hernandez for the Mariners.
With all the other issues surrounding Domingo German, I hope he doesn't get a lifetime pass just for throwing a perfect game against the shittiest MLB team in at least two decades.
What I love most about perfect games/no hitters like this is that the Mariners really needed a performance like that from Felix - the offense could only muster 1 run, but didn't matter because of the ace
We are loyal. Tired of these other fans saying that they feel bad for Felix. Why? Yes, we would like to see him get more wins but he is loyal to this city and team. We are making a decent run at the postseason right now. We aren't like the Dodgers who have Magic Johnson that owns the team and have the highest payroll in baseball but our record isn't far from theirs. Everyone forgot who the Seahawks were because they aren't a big market like other teams but they just won the ring. Teams can keep sleeping on the Mariners and they will gladly beat a handful of teams to finish out the season and end up in the playoffs. Go M's!
I just wanna add they feel sorry for Felix they realize he could've left a couple season ago but he didn't he loves Seattle win or lose. He's a loyal guy.
***** In between 2010 and now were 3 other years. So there's no pattern anymore. It might just happen. But let's hope it doesn't. If it does, oh well. We're used to losing.
***** Yep or the result will be the same or not as good. They have a good start getting rid of Hart and Smoak. I hope we don't see Romero or Denorfia again. Our leadoff guy wether it's Jackson or Jones needs to not strikeout a thousand times, we need a DH who lives up to the name which neither Hart nor Morales did, we need a consistent shortstop, Zunino needs to stop trying to send every ball to the moon and obviously we need another bat. Probably two actually. It's amazing that a team that was shutout 19 times was a playoff contender. Imagine how good they could be with a good offense. They could probably win the division.
+Jared Pollack ...and in such a beautiful, amenity-filled stadium like Safeco Field it should be sold-out every game too, but, they won't comeback until we start winning again, bottom line, King Felix or no King Felix we need to jack up our offense, and I think we're on the right track acquiring Nelson Cruz and Robinson Cano in the most recent 2 years, and how about the solid "D", especially at the "Hawt Corner" by our homegrown All-Star 3rd baseman Kyle Seager, who also has some serious pop in his bat too!!! Things WILL turn around in 2016, under both GM Jerry Dipoto and our new manager Scott Servais, all we need now is a consistant closer, not an on-and-off-and-on-again one like what Fernando Rodney was last year, we haven't had a decent closer since Kazu (Kazuhiro Sasaki) back from 2000-02, and his "Thang", that nasty, nasty splitter he threw with two strikes on a hitter consistently, I think that and one more bat and we will win the AL West in 2016!!! GO MARINERS!!!
Man! I keep watching this over and over; I am a huge Mariners fan. I'm really glad that Felix got the first perfect game in Seattle Mariners history. I really wish that I could've went to that game. Well, I bet that every Mariners fan that wasn't able to go to this game wishes that they would've gone, obviously. Oh, and the defense was outstanding. I mean if Chavez wouldn't've caught the ball in the first inning or if Justin Smoak wouldn't've scooped up that bad throw by Brenden Ryan or if Kyle Seager and Dustin Ackley would't've caught those liners, Felix wouldn't be in the history books. This is one of the greatest moments in Seattle Mariners History, well besides the 1995 season and their 2001 season where they had 116 wins but this is pretty close. Way to Felix Hernandez, you totally deserve it.
23 perfect games out of over 218,000 played. that's like .0001 percent chance of pitching one every game that's played. Is there anything harder to do in baseball?
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It’s the most Mariners thing ever that Felix throws a perfect game and only wins by 1
It really is
It would be more Mariners if he took it into the 15th inning and then got pulled out and didn’t get the win
Just like Koufax in '65 for the Dodgers.
🤣 it's funny because it's true!
Rays had Hellickson on the mound too btw
We were getting cable stuff done that day. I told the cable guy, "if you cut our cable off before this game ends, we're going to have some problems" and he laughed and watched the last two innings with our family.
That's fukin awesome
i dont think anyone cared about what they were doing that day
Who hurt you
The Shanghai Dragons are on a win streak Are you a Tampa Bay fan?
Nate Yankees bro
"HE GOT HIM. 34 YEARS, 119 GAMES, ITS FINALLY HAPPENED. A PERFECT GAME BY A SEATTLE MARINER. IT WAS DONE BY THE KING." i get chills everytime.
They call him THE KING
that was a hell of a call
The part that makes me shiver is “struck him out!! YAH!!!”
sorry, i am a foreigner.. i cant understand that he got him. could you explain that? 😥😥😥😥 please help me
@@강윾 The Mariners were formed in 1977, so the day this happened it was 119 games into their 35th season. So 34 years and 119 games after the 34th year.
How Poetic is the "34 YEARS" with King Felix turning around as he says it to reveal his number.
how can u not be romantic about baseball???
@@rorygarhart736 I used to love baseball as a kid in the 80's. I was so obsessed with baseball cards and my dad took my to a few Dodger games back then. I still have a lot of my old cards he found strewn about my room he saved for me. Then I fell in love w/ the early 90's Lakers, and I never really got back into baseball. But it's a beautiful game, and I always check in yearly to see feats like this. It's not my thing anymore, but I'd love to go back to a game with my dad. Maybe we'll do that this year now that we have Ohtani.
Lol the first out was the closest thing to being a hit
also 4th inning first out was fortunate
And second one too..
That was almost a dinger too. It was a sweet catch though, moving backward, over the shoulder catch, moving into the shade.
Yeah I thought the same thing
MANCHESTER UNITED so... whats your point here? We should stop playing all other sports because soccer is the most played sport on earth??
That commentary was legendary
"Ground ball! Smoaks GOT IT! WE'RE GETTIN INTO NITTY GRITTY TIME FOLKS!"
"He's three outs away from IMMORTALITY!!!!!" - classic stuff
The commentary has been the best thing about Seattle sports since Kevin Calabro did the Sonics (Seahawks aside obviously lol)
Dave Sims is the man on the call. Great stuff.
Just Jack agreed
While Sims is certainly not the best sports commentator, I believe that he his comfortably above average for baseball guys and agree that here he was amazing.
Even more telling of how bad most are compared to him, check out his call vs the White Sox call of Phil Humber's perfect game earlier that year. The White Sox call of their guy's PG was... just horrible -- pretty much just "Humber has thrown a perfect game" in a bland, unexcited, disingenuous voice. Sims gave a very good call embodying a respect for the opposing player and team's accomplishment as it pertains to sports and MLB history.
Anyone else here after Felix’s last game in Seattle?
Jacob Tiemann perfect they gave him just 1 run in his last game, iconic.
Herbert Castillo In a weird way I love the fact that it happened that way. Quite a good summary of his career in one game
Jacob Tiemann there wasn’t a dry eye in the place; mine included.
Herbert Castillo this is legit.
:'( yes...
Man how long was that stadium tech waiting to bust out that perfect game graphic?
Shrek Theogre all his life
34 years+119 games sounds like
They put it together in the middle of the 7th lol
Suprised they even had one
I'm part of a tech crew. We make graphics for all the players in case they make a historical feat.
somewhere in baseball heaven Dave NIehaus is saying "MY OH MY!"
+StFidjnr Damn. That hit me hard. Rest in peace.
Over and over and over again, just how we like it!
Hell yeah!!!! MY OH MY YEAH BABY
It's a real shame he never got to see it. No doubt he would have been getting every Mariner fan within range of his voice going crazy with joy.
Dang, imagine what it would’ve been with him on the commentary
"He's three outs from immortality"... pure gold
That high leg kick and point to the sky on the third out is truly iconic.
Make it a statue fr
I know that a perfect game is credited to the pitcher but it depends on the performance of the whole team.
Tru dat
BoB n fishy *replies four years after original comment*
@@dmitripiasecki4290 in 4 more years it won't be true any more so i had to get it in before that
@@BoBnfishy in 4 years it'll still be true. In 100 years it'll still be true.
It'll always be true that you commented 4 years after the original comment.
true. but the defense can’t make plays without the pitcher
Last pitch was positively filthy - 92 MPH changeup just buried at the knees.
Can you even call a 92 MPH pitch a changeup at that point though? lol
@@meganb.2249 yes? A changup is just taking mph off your fastball. If you consistently pitched 100, 95 could be your changeup.
@@I_The_Unguided Doesn't it have a different grip though? Or is that just for the circle change and vulcan change?
@@meganb.2249 yes it does, but the point of the changeup is to make it look like a fastball, however it ends up at the plate slower. So if a hitter is timing your fastball well you can throw a changeup to mess up their timing and hopefully get them to swing early.
@@I_The_Unguided So you're saying by definition a changeup can be thrown with a fastball grip? Sorry, I guess I always thought of the changeup as its own pitch. :/
Love it. Very well done video of all 27 outs. No stupid music to ruin it, just the perfect calls...Awesomeness.
Awesome announcing! I love it, "IT WAS DONE BY THE KING!" We have a real shot this year!!
james lachs DOWN? he says DONE
james lachs fuck you lol
Killa Fornia Very creative! You're a class act, buddy.
james lachs LOL weirdest argument ever XD
james lachs Yeah that 28-34 record looks great this year lol
it doesn't matter how many times i watch this, by the 6th inning I'm smiling so much my face starts to hurt.
Still here 8 years later lol. One of my favorite calls of the game is at 4:30. Struck. Him. Out. *YEAH!* That's not a commentators voice, that's a fans voice. Just another reason I love Dave Sims working the TV broadcast.
Yeah but what's weird is that I still keep getting butterflies in my stomach every time I watch this up until the last out of course even though I have already seen this a lot and I already know what is going to happen. Maybe because I'm that much of a fan and also considering that other things could've happened, like the Rays getting on base in the last inning. Oh what would be worse is if the Rays would've hit a solo homer to tie the game in the last inning on what would've been the final out of the game and then the game goes into extras, the Mariners put in a new pitcher, the new pitcher gives up three runs in the tenth, the Mariners score two runs in the bottom of the tenth giving the Mariners fans hope that they will at least win the the game, the Mariners choke, the Rays end up winning the game five to three, the mariners fans go home crushed and heartbroken, and the game goes down as one of the worst moments in Seattle Mariners history. But at least that didn't happen. Go M's!
Jared Cloud jeez. "Well at least that didn't happen!" 😂😂😂😂
@@jaredcloud6137 jmmimiimm
Kik
I remember catching the last few innings. I came home between football practices and had it on in the background. Suddenly I heard "Felix Hernandez perfect through six!" and I decided I would miss my afternoon practice. Definitely worth it.
I like this video, it shows really how a perfect game isn't just the pitcher's, but the entire team's.
His final four innings were pretty insane, though. 8 Ks and four groundouts.
but the other 2 perfect games that year was onlye the team, almost nothing by the pitcher. Felix's was a really perfect game.
One of the most well deserved perfect games in MLB history
What's weird is... a perfect game is REALLY RARE... and I saw 2 of them at Safeco Field.
And I've only been to 6 MLB games in my life.
A statistician should figure the odds of only going to 6 games ever and seeing 2 perfect games. Then factor in at same stadium. Then factor in both the same year.
You are very lucky I've been to roughly 25-30 Mariners games throughout my life and I can recall them winning only like 3-4 of those games. Why cant I have your luck?
Emerald City Beast 253 Well, they did lose the second perfect game to the White Sox, but won all the rest !
+TacomaPaul It was to the White Sox...
KMM - Oops. Yeah, them.
Too many $7 beers.
There have been over 210000 mlb games played so far, the exact number is not given so we'll use 210000.
There have been 23 perfect games, so that means the odds of seeing a perfect game on any given day is 23/210000 or about 1 in 9130.
There are approximately 15 stadiums played at every day, so if a perfect game was to happen every day, the odds would be 1/15. Seeing 2 at the same stadium would make it 1/225.
Multiply by 9130 and the odds are sitting at around 1 in 2054348.
There have been 23 perfect games over 145 years. That's about 1 perfect game every 6.3 years.
Multiply by 6.3 and the odds are sitting at around 1 in 12942392.
Since you went to 6 mlb games, the odds become 6 to 12942392, so around 1 in 2157065.
However, you saw 2 perfect games in those 6 mlb games, so we square the previous number.
Final Odds of you seeing 2 perfect games over 6 MLB games in the same year in the same stadium is:
1 in 4,652,931,139,877
So if everyone did what you did, only 1 person out of 4.7 trillion people (if we had that many people) would have that same experience.
Go buy a lottery ticket bro
With how good pitchers have gotten I’m surprised this is the last perfect game. It’s been almost 10 years
Complete games are rarer now than ever, primarily because teams now understand the link between IP and UCL injuries. Rarely do guys throw more than 100 pitches.
So you'd think, then, that combined perfect games should've happened by now, right? Thing is, the three true outcome sport of walk, strikeout, homer makes it hard. Usually there's a walk at some point. No pitcher is the same. You might have a Gerrit Cole type get you 6 innings into it, but a soft tossing guy who lives on the edges comes in to face someone who has resolved not to expand the zone, and you get a walk.
Domingo.
@@henryruggsiii3970 ...Germán.
Whose here after his last game? KINGGGGGG
Hell I'm in 2020 lol
Sad to know that Niehaus wasn't around to call it.
"MY OH MY!!!! A perfect game by the King!!!!"
Sims still made a great call though
Specterling That's better.
Agreed
I’m your 100th like😁
Sucks for the Tampa pitcher though, he pitched a pretty good game, just not as good as Felix. So clutch.
Hellickson pitched 7 with just 1 run. Yeah, it really does suck when that happens
+BlitzTaifun / DragonScales I actually watched a Mariners-Yankees game in the old Kingdome with Randy Johnson vs. Jimmy Key. Awesome, classic pitchers duel that both pitchers went 9 and ended 1-0 (Yankees won, dammit)!
Have you seen this mariners lineup
Pedro Martinez lost a perfect game in the 10th inning.
Don’t give him too much credit, it’s the Mariners ‘ offense...
Gives me goosebumps every time I watch this
colby watts lol i literally just watched this vid today I was shivering no joke ohh man this is probably best mariners moment of all time
Even years later it brings a smile to me. Sad to see felix in his current state. Hope he can get back to what he once was
Dave Sims is like the Jim Ross of baseball, his announcing makes epic things even more epic
Faccz
the mariners announcers have always been amazing throughout my childhood
I'm a casual Red Sox fan and don't know much about Felix Hernandez, but god damn this was cool. Went back and watched the full last few innings, and it gives you a much better sense how completely locked in he was, just rolling with one great pitch after another, barely a pause between them. You get the sense he could've kept it going for a couple more innings at least. Incredible :)
It took 34 years for the M’s to pitch a perfect game, as Felix proudly represents 34 on his back. Perfection.
9 years later and this still brings a tear to my eye. Thanks for everything Felix. Baseball is fun.
9 years later and it’s still the most recent perfect game, crazy!
Crazy especially how Felix's was the third perfect game of THAT SEASON but there's been none since 👁👄👁
not anymore
And it's not like every other pitcher who got a perfect game against the Astros. This was done against a team who got 90 wins that season and almost made the playoffs
"And it's not like every other pitcher who got a perfect game against the astros." Boy did that age well.
Just as I expected, Astros fans now acting exactly like Cubs fans 2 years ago: roaming around the Internet and talking shit about how Astros just won the championship. 2017 WS title can't change the fact that Astros sucked from 2007 to 2014. And yeah, 2012 Astros team finished with 55-107 record, the worst of all MLB.
2008, the year of Hurricane Ike, was surprisingly the last time they had a winning record until 2015. And they had the same number of wins in both years, 86.
@@2B2Mgt Yeah it doesn't help much that after 2005 the team's owner wasn't interested anymore and wanted to sell them, and thus was unwilling to spend any money.
Nope. Definitely not a problem. Also I think the Astros have had what? 1 perfect game against them? Against a lineup that had 1 single player who was still around in 2017?
Also who would you rather listen to? Astros fans bragging about their title (that actually happened recently unlike most teams) or Yanks/Sox fans who don't even watch a majority of the games, yet pretend they're all wizards?
@@2B2Mgt and now they've been exposed as cheaters in 2017-19
King Felix should be in the hall of fame some day. He has had a great career, just wish he played on a better team.
He should've been with the dodgers the mariners never won a world series the braves were ok but he just had to leave before they made it to the world series and became world series Champs of 2021.
:)
"He's three outs away from immortality!" I get goosebumps from that.
I love the maniers I have lived in Washington my whole life
tjmcgann1234 Soon gonna be calling us Mariners bandwagon fans, lmao! Get ready for it.....
Me too. My dad is a hardcore Mariners fan; I've never seen him get so excited for baseball. Fingers crossed that we'll make it to the World Series this year.
i moved here this year and both mariners games i went to they won, first one i was right next to trout and the second one i saw Marco gonzales pitch 5 1/3 no hit innings and healy hit 2 three run shots to beat the white sox.
I'm a card's fan though so i won't get to see them much around here sadly
@@amandanies3174 it's 2020 I grew up near sea-tac airport lean years for ms.love Seattle I miss it.
"3 outs away from immortality" chills
Yesterday was the last day in king Felix’s reign as the perfect game holder
Yep, though I mean he certainly earned the title “King” then 😂
"WE'RE GETTIN' INTO NITTY-GRITTY TIME, FOLKS!" Awesome.
Front to back, this is the best perfect game call by an announcer. So many great moments in the broadcast
It's fun to hear the crowd as the game goes on.
I still watch this video once a year. Perfect game is already legendary but add in fans chanting “king” throughout the game makes it one of my favorite videos on RUclips.
10 years since this gem and 10 years since the most recent perfect game in the mlb
The Rays were close to a perfect game vs Orioles
DOMINGO GERMAN
Dave Sims called this game so beautifully. One of the best in the biz
It was done by the *KING*
It’s also hard to believe that we haven’t had a perfect game since 2012...
We might actually end this current decade without seeing another perfecto from anyone (sorry, Leake).
This was a pure work of art, The King Felix #34, 34 years, thats destiny, but in Seattle, even 100+ wins doesn't get a championship, this man deserved a better team, but had loyalty you don't see anymore.
Welcome to the Marines Hall Of Fame KING FELIX
I love the announcers call. I enjoy revisiting this video especially because of the call
makes me proud to be a Mariner fan :')
my sympathies
Desean Juckson
2015 Mariners, World Series Champs. Just wait...
+HookemHorns972 Most of us Mariners fan thought that, and they didn't come close.
Why do the Mariners have to do this to us?
Proto Man I don't know man, same old Mariners I guess. I still believe in them though. But I don't feel good at all about this years pitching rotation.
@@HookemHorns972 looking promising this year boys
The cool thing about showing all the outs like this is hearing the growing, cautious excitement of the commentator.
"and it was done by the king!" best call all season
I’m literally crying rn
Jaso is such a great catcher with calling the game
Siempre vengo aquí a ver esta joya de video, esta gran hazaña! ❤
THE hardest feat in all of sports!
going undefeated in an NFL season is pretty hard I'd say as only one team in 100 years has ever done it.
Don't know if it's a sport or not, but probably winning 24 hours of le mans
This was not only a great game by Felix, but that’s some phenomenal defense by the whole squad
I just *love* how innocent and by-the-numbers this game and this video began.
I'vewatched this video at least a dozen times and it's still amazing to watch
Just makes it so perfect that it was a 1 run game. Felix is one of the best apart from the Mariners never built around him.
Moved to another state 15 years ago and I still get nostalgic by watching mariners highlights.
I watched this entire game as kid and I cry everytime when he gets that final K because he deserves it.
Never gets old to watch this one!
Truly the King of Seattle
Ah, the one time I've ever been happy that blackout rules existed - MLB Network's main game was Nats-Giants (and a pretty good one at that), but we got to see this instead.
I come back to watch this every now and then and I still get chills when I hear “ we’re getting into nitty gritty times folks” and the final call
many perfect games come against the rays theres this one dallas braden and mark buehrle
Thats all 3
Lavante Fulton
That was Humber
Buehrle had like a one-hitter against them in 2005, his perfect game vs the Rays was in 2009
And Edwin jackson
the dodgers have had 3 thrown against them
Our King 👑
such great memories!!
👑 Felix , one of my favorite pitchers !
Happy 10 years
This is amazing!! I am not a Mariners fan, but this made me cry at the end when he put his arms up in the air, thanking God I am sure. What an awesome feeling that had to be!
Hall of famer
JJ Inirio not even close, no way.
Louis Payan
If he was on a good team and won a World Series or 2 he would be
Felix will get in, definitely not a first ballot hall of famer though
His career took a turn for the worse since i made that comment so idk about the hall of fame now
Nothing more special than a perfect game. Have me chills. I hope King Felix makes it back to the majors.
As of 8/14/22 there hasn't been a perfect game since King Felix's. Tomorrow will be the 10 year anniversary
Dark decade
Rays were all so close to break it on sunday
Yankees, Gérman threw one tonight June 28th #pinstripepride
@@cashecboast Crazy that it was nearly 11 years in between perfect games. From 2009 to 2012 I think there were 6 in total.
Dallas Braden for the A's
Mark Buerhle for the White Sox
Roy Halladay for the Phillies
Phillip Humber for the the White Sox
Matt Cain for the Giants
& Felix Hernandez for the Mariners.
I can't believe it. His run is over😯😯😯 Literally in the most baseball way too. A random pitcher on a random night against a random team. This is wild
With all the other issues surrounding Domingo German, I hope he doesn't get a lifetime pass just for throwing a perfect game against the shittiest MLB team in at least two decades.
@@emeraldaly7646 After watching back the German game I definitely concur. That game does not count at all lmaoooo
This is still the last perfect game in my heart.
Was there any others more recent than this?
I come back here every time I'm feeling sad
What I love most about perfect games/no hitters like this is that the Mariners really needed a performance like that from Felix - the offense could only muster 1 run, but didn't matter because of the ace
I really loved watching Brendan Ryan's defense at shortstop for the M's, he was awesome.
Those last 3 innings he went full “you’re not touching me” mode
I come back to this often just because I smile after that last pitch is thrown.
poor rays keep getting petfect games against them
The Kings Court trying to psych hitters out on 2 strike counts is awesome. Reminds me of fans behind basketball players shooting free throws
To think that the only guy on that field besides Felix still on Seattle is Seager brings back memories of what doesn't initially seam that long ago
I was at this game, cousins from England came over to vist and we took them to a game and they didn't understand lol. I'll never forget this moment
So many feelings.
Ahem.. I think you mean "So much feels". This is the internet lol
Felix had “filthy” stuff that day. That breaking ball was awesome.
We are loyal. Tired of these other fans saying that they feel bad for Felix. Why? Yes, we would like to see him get more wins but he is loyal to this city and team. We are making a decent run at the postseason right now. We aren't like the Dodgers who have Magic Johnson that owns the team and have the highest payroll in baseball but our record isn't far from theirs. Everyone forgot who the Seahawks were because they aren't a big market like other teams but they just won the ring. Teams can keep sleeping on the Mariners and they will gladly beat a handful of teams to finish out the season and end up in the playoffs. Go M's!
I just wanna add they feel sorry for Felix they realize he could've left a couple season ago but he didn't he loves Seattle win or lose. He's a loyal guy.
***** 100 loss team? Seriously?
***** In between 2010 and now were 3 other years. So there's no pattern anymore. It might just happen. But let's hope it doesn't. If it does, oh well. We're used to losing.
***** Yep or the result will be the same or not as good. They have a good start getting rid of Hart and Smoak. I hope we don't see Romero or Denorfia again. Our leadoff guy wether it's Jackson or Jones needs to not strikeout a thousand times, we need a DH who lives up to the name which neither Hart nor Morales did, we need a consistent shortstop, Zunino needs to stop trying to send every ball to the moon and obviously we need another bat. Probably two actually. It's amazing that a team that was shutout 19 times was a playoff contender. Imagine how good they could be with a good offense. They could probably win the division.
+Jared Pollack ...and in such a beautiful, amenity-filled stadium like Safeco Field it should be sold-out every game too, but, they won't comeback until we start winning again, bottom line, King Felix or no King Felix we need to jack up our offense, and I think we're on the right track acquiring Nelson Cruz and Robinson Cano in the most recent 2 years, and how about the solid "D", especially at the "Hawt Corner" by our homegrown All-Star 3rd baseman Kyle Seager, who also has some serious pop in his bat too!!!
Things WILL turn around in 2016, under both GM Jerry Dipoto and our new manager Scott Servais, all we need now is a consistant closer, not an on-and-off-and-on-again one like what Fernando Rodney was last year, we haven't had a decent closer since Kazu (Kazuhiro Sasaki) back from 2000-02, and his "Thang", that nasty, nasty splitter he threw with two strikes on a hitter consistently, I think that and one more bat and we will win the AL West in 2016!!! GO MARINERS!!!
Long live the King
This game was played four months after the Mariners found themselves victim of Phil Humber's perfect game on April 21st, 2012 on this same field.
Amazing performance by the king
I don't know y but Felix makes a perfect game seem like it isn't a big deal.
he needs to focus cause if he celebrates after an inning he might jinx it and lose his perfect game
+Lerra Alfonso I know, I was simply saying that because of how dominant Felix can be.
I watched this game and got chills when he kept throwing off speed on 3-2 pitches
Nobody messes with a, as Bugs Bunny would say, "Powerful, paralyzing, percussion pitch" dealt by The King aka Felix Hernandez. :)
WOWW 3 YEARS NOW!!!!! You and Armando TWO perfect games
Grande el Rey
Here after Domingo German’s perfect game.
I still tear up a bit every time I watch this. Love the King!
Yes, I realize that Felix had a major part in this perfect game, but truly, it would definitely not have been without the entire team.
As with every good pitching performance
Alli Haynie yeah, the mariners played some good defense that day
Man! I keep watching this over and over; I am a huge Mariners fan. I'm really glad that Felix got the first perfect game in Seattle Mariners history. I really wish that I could've went to that game. Well, I bet that every Mariners fan that wasn't able to go to this game wishes that they would've gone, obviously. Oh, and the defense was outstanding. I mean if Chavez wouldn't've caught the ball in the first inning or if Justin Smoak wouldn't've scooped up that bad throw by Brenden Ryan or if Kyle Seager and Dustin Ackley would't've caught those liners, Felix wouldn't be in the history books. This is one of the greatest moments in Seattle Mariners History, well besides the 1995 season and their 2001 season where they had 116 wins but this is pretty close. Way to Felix Hernandez, you totally deserve it.
No one will see this comment but I was there at that game with my dad 7 years ago. I was 11 years old and it is my greatest memory of all time
I'm here after watching the finale of SB Nation's 6 part docu-series on the Mariners. Love it!
23 perfect games out of over 218,000 played. that's like .0001 percent chance of pitching one every game that's played. Is there anything harder to do in baseball?