against the brooklyn dodgers and campanella and duke snider. these are the reds where they do have an awesome year. larson gets the last pitch of the game which is more of a ball that the pitch what halladay gave up the walk on to jay bruce. that was a closer pitch than larson s final pitch, so included in that kind of problemistic luck factor are things like umpire calls. what about years where you saw more juicing or suspected juicing in baseball and, of course, since they ve cracked down. could this have happened in the heydays of the big run derbies? less likely. fundamentally problemistic, less likely. halladay, you got to think of him like krypton. he was pitching during the juice
they ve been calling it the year of the pitcher in major league baseball. now, we know why. took almost 54 years but don larson finally has company. larson still holds the record because his no the hitter was also a perfect game. yesterday, halladay was nearly perfect, just a walk in the fifth inning, but definitely the biggest game of his career. surreal, it really is. i just wanted to pitch, pitched in the postseason. to be able to go out and have a game like that, you know, it s a dream come true. cnn contributor, max kellerman, our resident sports guy joins us now. what a thriller in the postseason. but also, boy, i hope he s going to buy the catcher dinner.
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regular season. one being in the regular season, one being in the postseason. no one s ever done that before. it s not dependent on just the pitcher. it s also the catcher. it s also your defense. some of it s luck. like wings in oregon? exactly. baseball is really, unlike basketball, say, where one player can touch the ball as much as he wants and really you can run the offense through him, or football, you try harder, you do better. it s a full contact sport. baseball is really fundamentally a problemistic sport. you do as much as possible. that s what the pitcher does over the course of the game. and halladay, that s why they call him an ace. he s a deck of aces. he s incredible talent and clearly the best pitcher in major league baseball. and a call is a little bit of a controversial one. don larson was pitching