2 Perfect games!

Congratulations to Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox for his perfect game!! 27 up and 27 down. And the catch by DeWayne Wise to preserve it was spectacular.

What I don't understand is how a fielding error cost Jonathan Sanchez of the San Francisco Giants a perfect game less than two weeks before. Sanchez issued no walks and didn't hit a batter. He pitched a perfect game as well. Only a tough chance error relegated him to pitching a no-hitter, an incredible accomplishment to be sure, but not perfection. I realize that a perfect game is defined as facing the minimum number of batters, but for all intents and purposes, I don't think that Buehrle's and Sanchez's accomplishments were any different. And now the record books will show one as greater than the other, a perfect game vs. a no-hitter.

If the only blemish to a perfect game happens in the field, then why can't it be called a perfect game too? In Sanchez's case, call it a perfect game, and if more information is necessary, a 28-batter perfect game. For Buehrle, a 27-batter perfect game. But call them both perfect games. To call Sanchez's game simply a no-hitter is to make it sound no different than a no-hitter that included five walks and a hit batter.

And not just for the game that Sanchez pitched, but for all the no-hitters that were perfect except for defensive errors - they deserve to be called perfect games too. And it will take some fielders off the hook.