Programming note: NBC Sports Bay Area will air Matt Cain’s perfect game at 7 p.m. Sunday.
Matt Cain always wanted to throw a no-hitter during his MLB career. He never dreamed of throwing a perfect game.
Which is why it took the former Giants ace so long to watch the full game of his perfecto against the Houston Astros back in 2012.
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With NBC Sports Bay Area airing Cain's perfect game on Sunday night, Amy Gutierrez called on Giants fans to ask questions, and she posed five of them to Cain himself.
When a fan wondered if Cain had ever watched his perfect game, he offered this nugget.
"I don't think I watched it until three or four years later," Cain said. "I watched it in St. Louis. I don't know why I had taken so long to do it. It wasn't that I was worried about it or anything like that. I don't know. For some reason, I never watched it back. And then I did -- I watch it in 2015 or 2016. I know it was in St. Louis. I sat there and I watched it and I remember having to get the DVD from the broadcast team.
"So I sat back and watched it and I just tried to take it in. I think that was what was hard. I don't think I wanted to believe that it happened because I knew I was still playing. But now when I look back at any of it, it's like 'Wow, that really did happen.' And it was just a fun night. All around, it was a fun night."
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Cain's perfect game is the only one in the long, storied history of the Giants' franchise. It was a special night in the middle of a special season for the team.
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Later that year, they would go on to win their second World Series in three years.