Baffoe: Why Kerry Wood’s 20 Strikeout Game Is Better Than Perfect

" (CBS) I had the same argument with friends in July of 2009 after watching the Mark Buehrle perfect game against Tampa Bay, one of the best games I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. A friend posed the question again to me almost immediately after Philip Humber was almost asphyxiated on the field by the mob of White Sox piling on him in Seattle, an equally thrilling experience to witness on my television.

Which is the better performance, that or Kerry Wood’s 20 strikeout game against the Astros?

A perfect game is… well, perfect. In a way.

27 up, 27 down. Only been done 21 times (or 20 if you don’t count Don Larsen’s World Series perfecto because playoff stats are often considered separate). There’s something truly special about that. And while Humber’s game is fresh in our minds, Wood’s happened 14 years ago (if you needed a reason to feel old today).

I remember coming home from high school on that drizzly May day, sitting at my desk to begin some homework (yes, I was that kid) and flipping on the Cubbies "

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