{"id":1031,"date":"2006-05-01T12:31:31","date_gmt":"2006-05-01T20:31:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/you_cant_stop_him_you_can_only_hope_for_a_bloop_single_or_a_walk_off_of_him.html"},"modified":"2006-05-01T12:31:31","modified_gmt":"2006-05-01T20:31:31","slug":"you_cant_stop_h","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/you_cant_stop_h.html","title":{"rendered":"You Can’t Stop Him, You Can Only Hope For A Bloop Single Or A Walk Off Of Him"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Daily News notes that a Queens high school baseball player has made baseball history by throwing two perfect games in a row<\/a>, and is working on his third straight perfect game today:<\/p>\n

A 17-year-old Bayside High School junior has rewritten baseball history, throwing back-to-back perfect games — a feat that has never been matched in the majors, minors or even at the high school level.<\/p>\n

“It was a dream,” Anthony Velazquez said on a recent morning outside his 8 a.m. physical education class in Queens. “I never expected to throw one and now I’ve thrown two.”<\/p>\n

The first perfect game was on April 11, when he shut down John Bowne High School, 2-0, striking out 11 in seven innings.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

Bayside didn’t play again until two weeks later but Anthony showed no rust.<\/p>\n

He whiffed 16 Flushing High batters en route to a 10-0 rout. He also went 2-for-4 in the leadoff spot with two stolen bases. The game was called after six innings because of the mercy rule.<\/p>\n

“My whole body went numb,” Anthony said of Tuesday’s win. “Then everybody from my team jumped on me.”<\/p>\n

Everyone knew he had been part of something special — but few knew just how special.<\/p>\n

According to the National Federation of State High School Associations, no high school pitcher has ever thrown consecutive perfect games — allowing no hits, walks or errors. Only two have managed to throw two perfect games in their entire high school careers.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Daily News notes that a Queens high school baseball player has made baseball history by throwing two perfect games in a row, and is working on his third straight perfect game today: A 17-year-old Bayside High School junior has rewritten baseball history, throwing back-to-back perfect games — a feat that has never been matched […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,3,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah","category-queens","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}