Dallas Braden, Roy Halladay, and Armando Galarraga have all made headlines for their brushes with perfection this season, but another feat of flawless pitching has largely escaped notice. From May 15th through June 6th, Cardinals reliever Jason Motte retired 32 consecutive batters, stringing together 10 2/3 innings of baserunner-free baseball. Of course, pitching a pseudo-perfecto out of the pen over the course of 3 weeks isn’t nearly as impressive as accumulating nine irreproachable innings on the same day, so Motte’s streak doesn’t deserve to be as celebrated. That said, we can still give the pitcher his due for an impressive body of work thus far in 2010.
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