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| 2004 Mega Points | ||||||
| Date | Team | Feat | Player | Mega Points Awarded | ||
| 18-May-04 | HOLMES | Perfect Game | Randy Johnson | 20 Points | ||
| Link to the story - CBS.Sportsline.com | ||||||
| Batters who faced Johnson | ||||||
| three times during the game: | Randy Johnson had pretty much done it all -- | |||||
| Player | JCHL Team | Points | Cy Young Awards, a no-hitter, strikeout records, | |||
| Jesse Garcia | JAM | 5 | a World Series championship. Only one thing | |||
| Julio Franco | free agent | - | was missing in his brilliant career, that rarest of | |||
| Chipper Jones | JOEL | 5 | pitching feats: the "Perfect Game." And now, | |||
| Andruw Jones | JOEL | 5 | at the ripe ol' age of 40, "the Big Unit" took care | |||
| Johnny Estrada | free agent | - | of that, too. | |||
| J.D. Drew | free agent | - | ||||
| Mark DeRosa | JOEL + JAM | 5 each | Johnson became the oldest pitcher in major | |||
| Nick Green | free agent | - | league history to throw a perfect game, retiring | |||
| all 27 hitters to lead the Arizona Diamondbacks | ||||||
| over the Atlanta Braves 2-0 Tuesday night. | ||||||
| MEGA POINT TOTALS | It was the 17th perfect game in major league | |||||
| Team | Points Earned | history, the 15th since 1900, the beginning of the | ||||
| HOLMES | 20 Points | modern era, and the first since the New York | ||||
| JOEL | 15 Points | Yankees' David Cone against Montreal on July | ||||
| JAM | 10 Points | 18, 1999. Cy Young, then 37, had been the | ||||
| oldest to throw a perfect game, doing it one | ||||||
| hundred years ago, in 1904. | ||||||
| While it was the first perfect game of Johnson's career, it was his second no-hitter. He no-hit | ||||||
| Detroit for Seattle on June 2, 1990, walking six. Johnson threw the first nohitter in Seattle history | ||||||
| and now he's pulled off the same feat for a different team. This was the first no-hitter for Arizona, | ||||||
| which joined the major leagues in 1998. He became only the fifth pitcher to throw no-hitters in both | ||||||
| the National and American leagues, joining Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Hideo Nomo and Nolan Ryan. | ||||||
| The Braves did hit several balls hard off Johnson, but the closest thing to a hit was a slow roller in | ||||||
| the sixth by Johnson's Atlanta counterpart, Mike Hampton. Alex Cintron scooped up the ball and | ||||||
| threw out Hampton by a half-step. Johnson lingered near the third-base line, giving Cintron a pat | ||||||
| with the glove as he ran off the field. Cintron also was the offensive hero, driving in Arizona's first run | ||||||
| and scoring the other. There were few other close calls against Johnson. Atlanta's first hitter, | ||||||
| Jesse Garcia, led off with a bunt toward first and tried to reach with a headfirst slide, but Shea | ||||||
| Hillenbrand managed to make the tag. In the fifth, J.D. Drew hit a liner toward the right-field corner, | ||||||
| only to have Danny Bautista make a basket catch. | ||||||
| The crowd sensed history in the making when J.D. Drew grounded out to end the eighth. The Atlanta | ||||||
| fans gave Johnson (4-4) a standing ovation as he trudged off the mound, then another when he batted | ||||||
| in the ninth. | ||||||
| Johnson dominated the Braves with two pitches, augmenting his fastball with a devastating slider. | ||||||
| He didn't bother much with his splitfinger fastball. Johnson's fastball reached the upper 90s in the | ||||||
| late innings. Andruw Jones lost his bat trying to catch up with a heater in the eighth. | ||||||
| Appropriately, Johnson struck out the final batter pinch-hitter Eddie Perez, with a 98 mph fastball. | ||||||
| Johnson pumped his fist and raised his glove in the air, but his teammates seemed even more | ||||||
| excited. Within seconds, Johnson was mobbed by the rest of his teammates. | ||||||
| The crowd of 23,381 at Turner Field gave Johnson a standing ovation as he walked slowly toward the | ||||||
| dugout. He waved in several directions before disappearing down the tunnel. The fans chanted, | ||||||
| "Randy! Randy! Randy!" in tribute to his outstanding performance. | ||||||
| Date | Team | Feat | Player | Mega Points Awarded | ||
| 6-May-04 | SD @ ATL | Triple Play | Juan Cruz -- Pitcher (ATL) | |||
| Ramon Hernandez -- baserunner (SD) Hernandez singled to center | ||||||
| Ramon Vazquez -- baserunner (SD) Vazquez walks, Hernandez to 2B | ||||||
| Kerry Robinson -- batter (SD) (pinch-hitting) grounded into triple play - | ||||||
| -- 3B to SS to 1B, Hernandez out at 3B, Vazquez out at 2B. | ||||||
| Mike Hessman (ATL) - Third Baseman | ||||||
| JOEL / JAM | 5 points each | Mark DeRosa (ATL) - Shortstop | ||||
| Adam LaRoche (ATL) - First Baseman | ||||||
| Date | Team | Feat | Player | Mega Points Awarded | ||
| 26-May-04 | HOLMES | Hit for Cycle | Daryle Ward | 10 Points | ||
| Link to the story - CBS.Sportsline.com | ||||||
| Daryle Ward became the 23rd Pirate to hit for the cycle and established the first father-son combination to accomplish the feat. Daryle's father, Gary Ward, hit for the cycle on Sept. 18, 1980 for the Twins. | ||||||
| Ward, recalled from Triple-A Nashville on May 11, hit a two-run double in the first, an RBI triple in the fourth off Jason Marquis, golfed a three-run homer off Kiko Calero in the fifth and singled off Steve Kline in the ninth. | ||||||
| He's the first Pirates player to hit for the cycle since Jason Kendall on May 19, 2000, against the Cardinals. It's been done 23 times in franchise history by 20 players. | ||||||