In past years, hearing of a no-hitter or a perfect game was something rarely heard on the radio or ESPN during SportsCenter.
Making the headlines were home run hitters who were taking the ball out of the park on what seemed like a daily basis. Little did we know (or have proof of at the time), that these batters had an edge on the rest of the competition.
Now that steroids and HGH has been seemingly depleted from the game of baseball, pitchers are starting to be at more of an even keel with the rest of the players again, making pitching a much more dominant force in baseball again.
The Steroid Era of baseball sent many repercussions throughout the history of baseball in a few different ways. Big time sluggers like Barry Bonds, Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez, to name a few of the alleged and admitted performance enhancer users, have created near unreachable feats such as home run records, due in large part to their usage of performance enhancing drugs (PED's).
With the Mitchell Report disclosing many names of steroid users, actions were taken to clean up the game of baseball and return it to its original form without the use of steroids.
It is no wonder that so far in the 2010 season of the majors that pitchers are progressively starting to make headlines for their unusual pitching feats, as it appears that batters who used to dominate the plate have lost their upper hand without the PED's.
Within the year 2010, there have been five no-hitters tossed by various different pitchers, three of which were perfect games, not to mention Armando Galarraga's near perfect game that was blown on a missed call at first base in early June.
In the 2009 season, two no-hitters were recorded for the entire season, one of which was a perfect game thrown by Mark Buehrle of the Chicago White Sox.
In May alone of the 2010 season, there were two recorded perfect games, one of which was a perfect game tossed by Oakland Athletics pitcher Dallas Braden, and the other thrown by Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies.
2010 has been a year for those on the bump, whether it is the decrease in hitters using PED's or the level of skill for pitchers has just been elevated. Similarily, the 2008 season only saw a pair of no-hitters, none of which were perfect games.
It is fair to say that 2010 has been a year for pitchers to shine on the mound, as so far in the season the no-hitters have outnumbered the latter two seasons of Major League Baseball.
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