The Imperfect Perfect Game

Dallas Braden threw the 19th perfect game in baseball history Sunday in a 4-0 victory over the visiting Rays in front of his grandmother on Mother's Day.

This unusual happening, retiring 27 consecutive batters–the minimum possible–needs to be inspected for clues from heaven. The perfect game is baseball’s greatest anomaly, why did it happen now to him? To better understand the how and the why it is necessary to scrutinize the numbers associated with this feat.

One of the cabalistic rules concerning gematria, the study of number-letter interchange, is the ability to add one to a complete number; 26 is the total of the Four Letter Name of God YHVH, adding one makes Cof-Ziyan/27 makes the word Zak/Pure when read backwards.

The number 19 is also significant because it was Mother’s Day but his mother had prematurely passed away–19 is the most incomplete number. The sum total of 27 and 19 is 72 which is the highest number related to the YHVH, called Ab /72 (Aiyin-Bet) the number related to the essence of the human being.

Doing anything perfect requires the help of God as seen is baseball where the best pitchers are not generally the ones throwing the perfect games–as the Talmud-Book of Law says, everything is in heaven with the exception of Yira Shamiam/Fear of Heaven.