Did you see that Opening Day Mark Buehrle play?Check out that video link at http://www.mlb.com/video/play.jsp?content_id=7282679 because it’s a play you quite possibly never see in a game again. Attacking the strike zone with his wide variety of high-movement pitches is what the Chicago White Sox is known for.
While he isn’t the hardest thrower within the Majors, he does deliver the ball swiftly, and he has a motion that can disrupt the timing of hitters.
He has, in recent years, been one of the more successful pitchers and has been one of the very few who has played a perfect game due to these circumstances and to his sterling control. The fans craved what Mark Buehrle is all about now – that is the deference. A lot of people would only be able to afford a Gold Glove with a payday loans. Mark Buehrle earns it on the field.
You can't prepare amazing like the Mark Buehrle play
According to Sports Illustrated, the Mark Buehrle play was one of the best plays that numerous players on the field had ever seen. Both the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox wonder how Mark Buehrle was able to trace down that liner that went off his foot and squirted toward first base, and, with his back to first base, shovel the ball with the glove between his legs and back to first base to get the big out. To add to the amazing, the White Sox first baseman, Paul Konerko, barehanded the Mark Buehrle play.
Opening Day 2010 was a banner day for baseball
As well as the Mark Buehrle play, Albert Pujols raked in two home runs for the Cardinals, Braves rookie phenom Jason Heyward homered in his first Major League regular season at-bat and Blue Jay’s pitcher Shaun Marcum carried a no-hitter to the seventh inning. Heyward and Pujols will probably hit many more home runs before it's over and Marcum's game went south after he gave up the first hit.
Because of the uniqueness of the Mark Buehrle play, it will remain in people's memories. It might have already earned him his second straight Gold Glove – unofficially at this point, of course.
Mark Buehrle’s perfect game last season was saved by defense
That defense was unfortunately not his. DeWayne Wise, an outfielder who was added as a late innings defense replacement, grabbed a ball that would have been a home run had he not made a leap and grabbed the ball right before it cleared the wall. Wise’s defensive play was one of the most dramatic to conserve a perfect game in Major League history. Of course that perfect game was the 2009 Mark Buehrle play.
A history of success for Mark Buehrle
Usually when considering the best pitchers in baseball, fans won't think of Mark Buehrle's name. We should consider Buehrle's record although normally we would think of Tim Lincecum, Chris Carpenter, Felix Hernandez, and Zack Greinke.
He has thrown 200 innings or more for 9 straight seasons when also winning 136 and losing 97 in his career – meaning he has won 60% of his games which is really good. He’s a workhorse. When you throw a no-hitter in 2008, then a perfect game in 2009, get a world series title in 2005, and a Gold Glove in 2009, then you’ve a pitcher who will often go under the radar. All of that amounts to quick cash at contract negotiation time.
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