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Humber Uses Perfect Game to Glorify a Perfect God

It's perhaps the loneliest feeling in baseball.

It's the 7th inning and you've got a perfect game going. And nobody wants to talk to you.

Not your manager. Not your teammates. Even the batboy is nowhere to be found.

But on one unlikely Saturday afternoon in Seattle, White Sox pitcher Philip Humber welcomed the silent treatment.

"I remember sitting in the dugout and I got this feeling that it might happen," the Christian athlete said.

Nerves racing, adrenaline pumping, Humber decided to give it all over to God with a simple prayer: "Lord if this is Your will for it to happen, just use me to glorify You through it."

And it happened all right—only the 21st perfect game in baseball history: a 96-pitch, 4-0 masterpiece that ended with a chaotic check-swing strikeout to Mariners' Brendan Ryan.

For a split second, just before his White Sox teammates mobbed him in a celebration at the pitcher's mound, Humber collapsed to the ground, his head buried in his hands.

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  • millergroup2

    And he said while prostrate to the ground……………."Thank you Jesus"!!!

  • Evermyrtle

    Always, GIVE GOD THE GLORY, as did Humbert. HE is all the we need. Our friends, out family may turn away but JESUS WILL BE WITH YOU THROUGH IT ALL, IF YOU, ONLY TRUST HIM.

  • keyboardshark

    A conceited new rookie was pitching his first game. He walked the first five men he faced and the manager took him out of the game. The rookie slammed his glove on the ground as he yelled, "Dang it, the jerk took me out when I had a no-hitter going."

  • Guy

    He did not win the for the team but for the GLORY OF GOD as every thing we do should be if you truly trust in him JESUS Will ALWAYS BE WITH YOU