 July 23 2009, Mark Burley is tossing a gem in Chicago. He's perfect through eight. And the day didn't start out that perfect. We got an article here from Lee Jenkins says that burley always bought a rockstar energy drink from the Shell gas station before every start when he was 10 minutes from the stadium. He looked down at his cup holder and noticed it was empty. Oh, shit, he muttered. He texted his wife, Jamie, forgot my drink. I'll definitely lose today. Even more interesting is the backup catcher Ramon Castro showed up and found his name in the starting lineup. He rushed over to burley to get the signs said fastball cutter change and burley said, you know, I throw I throw a curveball too. So Castro was a May acquisition from the Mets who was catching burley for the first time ever had no idea that he threw a curveball. And the last one is that the White Sox were playing a day game after a night game with a double header coming up the next day. So they tried out a lineup that looked more like a split squad. Gordon Beckham was in the minor leagues two months ago and he was starting at third base, which moved Josh Fields to first base for the seventh time in his career. Burley's command was so poor in his pregame bullpen session that he told Castro, don't worry, it'll get better. And it did. He's perfect through eight during wise comes in to play center field in the ninth inning. And we got the leadoff hitter up ball outside. Nice little cutter in one in one count outside and soft foul ball. Oh, you know who this is. This is Gabe Kapler, our good dear friend. Oh, that is fucking atrocious. Gabe actually puts together a decent at bat one to takes the high fastball. Then that fastball he turns on but turns a little too much but got good wood and then here's the play everyone remembers to to bombs it out there and wise tracks it down grabs it tumbling catch. Burley like, Oh, holy shit. Okay, what's going on? This is what the fans are going insane. Burley couldn't believe it. Wise picks up his sunglasses casually put some back on his head. Oh hum. I liked how you can see like when you can see he's he's got it I'm going backwards now. Alright, so he's got it peaks at the track in the wall to find out where he is quickly gets it again and never looks back at the wall after that peak never looked back knew exactly where he was grabs it. Oh my God, did you see the kid behind home plate never noticed this when I was editing it. This kid behind home plate gets sat down by this foul ball. Anyway, this next batter now wise has made the catcher two outs away. It's like fuck, I better just do it now. He falls behind him three one. And that dude doesn't swing at the three one. What are you looking for a walk so it goes from perfect game to no hitter get a hit dude. Three one swing the bats a perfect game be a bully. Instead burley's like fine, I'll just go off speed because you have to swing now. And just pulls the string on him makes him look bullish. Now they're standing up in Chicago one out away from the perfect game. There you go 81 right in there. His next pitch called a ball all the fans wanted it. A lot of fakeouts are out there one and one cutter low two and one. I mean burley was the most fun to watch pitch he goes off speed gets it to short but bam. Also burley's reaction here just glove on head in awe kind of like holy smokes what happened and then the teammates. I love perfect games because everyone needs to be perfect sure like 99% of the credit goes to the starting pitcher but like everyone had to be perfect in the field. It's a team accomplishment but 99% is there. So anyway says Haida was wife is baby. She got cute dress on and then says thank you to wise hey thanks for making that fantastic catch. I'm gonna go shower now and then wise says, you know, you guys saw that right? That was pretty cool. I mean defensive replacement to come in. Oh, here's a sign. I'm a socks fan. I always make the wise choice sponsored by OfficeMax. Wow. Great job by OfficeMax sponsoring that sign. What's up with her arm? It's like she's she got Tommy John surgery and we got pie to the hair in the head. Slick it back mark looking beautiful. One of the cooler defensive plays in a perfect game because everyone tuned in because everyone knew it was a perfect game. So I remember being home and not watching it but then ESPN broadcasted everyone tunes in and you're hoping to see something exciting not only do you see that that catch every perfect game no hitter comes with a defensive gem but for it to be the defensive replacement in center field in the ninth inning just insane.