Philip Humber HOLD Perfect Game Against Mariners?

White Sox pitcher Philip Humber delivers to the Mariners' Jesus Montero in the eighth inning of what would turn out to be the 21st perfect game in MLB history, a 4-0 blanking of the M's on Saturday in Seattle.

    Of all the likely candidates to throw a perfect game in the majors this season, Philip Humber of the Chicago White Sox would have been a long way down the list.

Last year, the Mariners scored 556 runs. I know that last year offense was down league-wide, but it wasn't down to a sufficient degree to explain 556 runs. In my head, 600 runs is the lower threshold. Not even the lower threshold of acceptability - the lower threshold of reality. In my head, it's difficult to conceive of a team that doesn't score 600 runs over an entire baseball season. In 2011, the Mariners scored 556 runs.

(But is he any more unlikely than say, Danny Duffy, Kyle Drabek or Brian Matusz? More on them later.)

Fate has a way of smiling on the unexpected and Humber is now the 21st member of MLB's exclusive fraternity of perfect game pitchers.

Meanwhile, video gamers are also competing to get into a Perfect Club of their own. (Certainly, you've seen the commercials with Kate Upton.) For the third straight season, the makers of the MLB 2K12 game will award a $1 million prize to someone who throws a perfect game this month.