{"id":20366,"date":"2012-04-23T13:40:36","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:40:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seamheads.com\/?p=20366"},"modified":"2012-04-23T13:40:36","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T20:40:36","slug":"juego-perfecto-arte-o-circunstancia-perfect-game-art-or-circumstance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seamheads.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/23\/juego-perfecto-arte-o-circunstancia-perfect-game-art-or-circumstance\/","title":{"rendered":"Juego perfecto: &#191;Arte o circunstancia? (Perfect game: Art or circumstance?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Existen muchos momentos de un juego de b&#233;isbol cuando pueden estar ocurriendo tantas cosas a la vez que quienes se quejan de la lentituddeljuego se llevar&#237;an la mano a la barbilla. Un juego perfecto. 27 bateadores. 27 outs. En fila. El gran logro de todo pitcher. El sue&#241;o de cualquier aficionado. Es la situaci&#243;n ideal para ilustrar la din&#225;mica y la tensi&#243;n que puede generar el b&#233;isbol.<\/p>\n<p>Por eso cuando este s&#225;bado 21 de abril de 2012 el pitcher Philip Humber ponch&#243; al &#250;ltimo bateador del juego, la adrenalina se desbord&#243; y quienes saltaban en las tribunas y el campo se pellizcaban para verificar que el sue&#241;o era realidad, que los outs se hab&#237;an sucedido consecutivos hasta completar el juego en 96 lanzamientos, que aquella nota escrita por Jim Bunning en la introducci&#243;n de un libro de juegos sin hits ni carreras flotaba en el ambiente.<\/p>\n<p>Muchos analistas del juego explican este tipo de juego desde el &#225;ngulo de estar en el momento adecuado en el lugar preciso, de que la defensiva sea impecable, de que los &#225;rbitros favorezcan al pitcher o sentencien apropiadamente.<\/p>\n<p>Si el ambiente de un juego sin hits ni carreras acorrala por completo la griter&#237;a y sume en la soledad al pitcher. Un juego perfecto tiene visos de camposanto a medianoche con viento silbante. Hasta los vendedores de perros calientes se comunican por se&#241;as. En el &#250;ltimo inning se puede escuchar hasta la ca&#237;da de un alfiler. El pitcher pareciera un astronauta justo antes de abordar la nave espacial. Nadie intenta hablar en el dugout, en el campo todos cuidan los detalles al mil&#237;metro, tal cual si cargaran un piano de vidrio en una escalera de caracol.<\/p>\n<p>Otros analistas refieren que lanzar un juego perfecto tiene mucho de m&#233;rito y de arte para el pitcher y su receptor, que hay que saber escoger los lanzamientos y ubicar a la defensa. Cual Vincent Van Gogh en su Noche estrellada. O Rever&#243;n en sus carboncillos. O Picasso en Guernica. O Andr&#233;s Eloy Blanco en Canto a los Hijos. O Ramos Sucre en Trizas de Papel. O Modigliani . O Arturo Michelena. O Beethoven enla NovenaSinfon&#237;a.O Aldemaro Romero en Fuga con Pajarillo. O Gabriel Garc&#237;a Marquez en Cien a&#241;os de soledad. O Hemingway en el Viejo y el mar. O Christian Barnard en el primer transplante card&#237;aco. Muhammad Ali neutralizando a George Foreman.<\/p>\n<p>Quiz&#225;s ese juego sea el punto m&#225;ximo en la carrera de muchos de lanzadores. Eso dif&#237;cilmente reste brillo a ese logro en particular. En Venezuela a&#250;n se espera por un juego perfecto en la liga profesional. Sin embargo se tienen muy en cuenta las faenas de Gustavo Mocho Garc&#237;a con Locomotora deLa Guairael 19 de abril de 1951 y Armando Bastardo con Mop Zona 10 el 23 de septiembre de 1971, ambos oriundos del estado Sucre, ambos lanzaron perfecto en la categor&#237;a AA amateur. Tambi&#233;n brilla en la memoria beisbolera el perfecto de Don Larsen&#160; enla SerieMundialde 1956 ante los Dodgers de Brooklyn. La gesta de Sandy Koufax ante los Cachorros de Chicago en 1965 porque el juego termin&#243; 1-0 y el pitcher contrario Bob Hendley, s&#243;lo permiti&#243; un imparable. Igual de inolvidable es la &#233;pica de Armando Gal&#225;rraga al perder su juego perfecto debido a una decisi&#243;n controversial del &#225;rbitro de primera base. O aquella joya de Harvey Haddix qui&#233;n lanz&#243; 12 episodios perfectos para perder ante los Bravos de Milwaukee en el episodio 13. Todos momentos dram&#225;ticos, &#250;nicos en el universo deportivo. S&#243;lo quienes viven el juego pueden dar fe de cuan helada estaba la sangre o si el coraz&#243;n lat&#237;a o explotaba.<\/p>\n<p>Cuando un pitcher sale al mont&#237;culo en el episodio culminante de un juego perfecto, se puede hasta sentir la bolsa de pezrrubia resbalando en sus manos y el escobilleo de la brocha del &#225;rbitro principal sobre el plato. Cuando suelta la pelota y suena el batazo, las l&#237;neas de Jim Bunning envuelven la pelota: &#8220;&#8230;lanzar un no-hitter es como participar en un accidente automovil&#237;stico que casi ocurri&#243;. Si ustedes lo han vivido saben que se siente. Han girado el volante, el pedal del freno hundido hasta el fondo. Huele a caucho quemado, se escucha el chirrido de los frenos. Mientras ven que el desastre se aproxima con velocidad de rayo, lo que les queda es la desesperanza de que todo esta fuera de control. Entonces, como un milagro, los neum&#225;ticos se deslizan hasta detenerse a escasos cent&#237;metros de la pared de ladrillos&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>English translation<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are many moments in a baseball game when it could be happening so many things at the time that even who ever complain about the game&#8217;s lentitude would take their hands to the chin. A perfect game. 27 batters up. 27 down. In a row. The great achievement of every pitcher. The dream of any fan. It&#8217;s the ideal situation to illustrate baseball&#8217;s dynamics and tension.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s why when this Saturday, April 21<sup>st<\/sup>, 2012 the pitcher Philip Humber struckout the game&#8217;s last batter, the adrenaline boiled over and who jumped in the stands and the field pinched their skin to verify the dream was for real, that Humber got 27 consecutive outs with just 96 deliveries. That note written by Jim Bunning in the Introduction for a book about no-hitters, floated in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Many analysts explain this kind of game from the angle of being somewhere the right time, the precise place. The defense needs to be impeccable. The umpires should sentence appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>If the atmosphere of a no-hitter shuts the crowd up and isolates de pitcher. A perfect game looks like a cemetery at midnight with blowing wind. Even the hot dogs vendors communicate by signs. In the last inning it could be heard even the falling of a pin. The pitcher seems to be an astronaut before boarding a rocket. Nobody tries to talk in the dugout. In the field everybody guards the details at the millimeter, as if they were carrying a glass piano through snail stairs.<\/p>\n<p>Other analysts say that hurling a perfect game has a lot of merits and art for the pitcher and the catcher. &#160;They should know how to choose the pitches and position the defense. Like Vincent Van Gogh in his Starry Night. Or Armando Rever&#243;n in El Puerto deLa Guaira.OrPicasso in Guernica. Or Andr&#233;s Eloy Blanco in Canto a los Hijos. Or Ramos Sucre in Trizas de Papel. Or Modigliani . Or Arturo Michelena. Or Beethoven in thr Ninth simphony. Or Aldemaro Romero in Fuga con Pajarillo. Or Gabriel Garc&#237;a Marquez in Hundred years of solitude. Or Hemingway in The Old man and the Sea. Or Christian Barnard in the first heart transplant. Muhammad Ali neutralizing a George Foreman in Rumble in the Jungle.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe that kind of game is the tip top in the career of a lot of pitchers. This can`t&#160; take the brightness off this achievement. In Venezuelaa perfect game is still due in the professional league. No way there are two references from the amateur baseball. Gustavo Mocho Garc&#237;a with the Locomotora de La Guiarateam hurled a perfect game on April 19<sup>th<\/sup>, 1952. Armando Bastardo hurled the other one with the MOP Zona 10 team on September 23<sup>rd<\/sup>, 1971, both natives of the state of Sucre, both hurled perfect in Class AA amateur. Also it shines in the baseball memory, Don Larsen&#8217;s perfect game in the 1956 World Series before the Brooklyn Dodgers. The epic of Sandy Koufax before the Chicago Cubs in 1965 because the score was 1-0 and the rival pitcher Bob Hendley, only accepted one hit. Another unforgettable contest is the almost perfect game of Armando Galarraga, he lost it on a controversial decision of the first base umpire. Or that gem of Harvey Haddix who pitched 12 perfect innings before losing the game before the Milwaukee Braves in the 13<sup>th<\/sup> inning. All of them dramatic moments, unique in the sports universe. Only who live the game can tell how frozen was the blood or if the heart beat or exploded.<\/p>\n<p>When a pitcher goes out to the mound in the final inning of a perfect game, you can even feel the rosing bag slipping through his hands, and the chief umpire sweeping home plate. When he releases the delivery and it sounds the bat against the ball, the lines of Bunning wrap the ball: &#8220;&#8230;pitching a no-hitter is a lot like participating in an automobile accident that almost happened. If you have ever been in a car during a near miss, you know the feeling. You&#8217;ve spun the wheel; the break pedal is to the floor. You smell the smoking rubber, hear the screeching brakes. Watching disaster approach at lightning speed, all you have left is that sinking, hopeless feeling that everything is beyond your control. And then-like a miracle- the roaring semi slides by with inches to spare or you slide to a stop inches from the brick wall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alfonso L. Tusa C.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Alfonso&#8217;s work has been featured in Venezuel&#8217;s daily newspaper, El Nacional and in the magazine Gente en Ambiente, and he has collaborated on several articles for newspapers, including the daily paper Tal Cual. He has also written four books and some biographies for SABR&#8217;s BioProject.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Existen muchos momentos de un juego de b&#233;isbol cuando pueden estar ocurriendo tantas cosas a la vez que quienes se quejan de la lentituddeljuego se llevar&#237;an la mano a la barbilla. Un juego perfecto. 27 bateadores. 27 outs. En fila. El gran logro de todo pitcher. El sue&#241;o de cualquier aficionado. 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