The first runner to reach second base in the game was John Flaherty.

比赛中首先到达二垒的跑垒员是约翰•弗莱厄蒂。

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At the Chicago White Sox U.S.Cellular Field on Chicago's South Side, the 30-year-old pitcher retired all 27 batters from the Tampa Bay Devil Rays without allowing anyone to reach first base, pitching a perfect game and putting his name in a record book occupied by only 17 others in Major League history.

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"They've all had them for the last three, four years, at least here, " said first-base coach Mick Kelleher, who gives the players the guards when they reach base.

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