In 2009, Matt Cain was named to his first career All-Star Game and won the Willie Mac Award.
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54 Facts About Matt Cain
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In 2012, Matt Cain signed a contract extension that, at the time, gave him the most lucrative contract ever received by a right-handed pitcher in major league history.
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Matt Cain threw the 22nd perfect game in big league history on June 13,2012.
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Matt Cain lived in Vincent, Alabama, for a year when his mother taught at a school nearby.
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Matt Cain took lessons on how to pitch from Mauro Gozzo, who lived near the Cains in Tennessee.
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Matt Cain signed a letter of intent to play college baseball for the Memphis Tigers.
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Matt Cain was selected by the San Francisco Giants in the first round in the 2002 Major League Baseball Draft.
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Matt Cain began his professional career in 2002 with the rookie Arizona League Giants.
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Matt Cain spent 2003 with the Hagerstown Suns of the Single-A South Atlantic League.
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Matt Cain began the season with the San Jose Giants of the Single-A advanced California League.
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Matt Cain led Giants' minor league prospects in wins, strikeouts, and ERA; he was named the Giants' Organizational Player of the Year.
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Matt Cain finished fifth in the PCL in wins and fourth with a 4.
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Matt Cain was called up to the Giants on August 26,2005, to join their rotation.
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When he was called up, Matt Cain was the second youngest player in the major leagues.
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In 2006, Matt Cain struggled with consistency, but showed signs of dominance in several starts, flirting with a no-hitter on more than one occasion.
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Late in the season, Matt Cain increased his chances for Rookie of the Year consideration with a run of remarkable pitching.
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Matt Cain finished in a fifth-place tie with Andre Ethier in the NL Rookie of the Year voting.
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Matt Cain hit his first and second career home runs in these starts, off Tim Redding of the Washington Nationals and Cubs' ace Carlos Zambrano.
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Matt Cain finished the season with the 10th-lowest ERA in the NL at 3.
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Matt Cain had 163 strikeouts and 79 walks in 200 innings pitched; he led the league with 12 wild pitches.
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On Matt Cain's final start before the All-Star Game, he was hit by a line drive right below his elbow and was forced to miss pitching for the NL All-Star Team, although he did still attend and was announced as an All-Star.
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Matt Cain was tied for first in complete games thrown with teammate Tim Lincecum.
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Matt Cain finished the season with a career-high in wins and winning percentage.
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In 2010, Matt Cain was part of a rotation that included 2008 and 2009 NL Cy Young Award winner Lincecum, 2002 American League Cy Young Award winner Barry Zito, Jonathan Sanchez, and Todd Wellemeyer.
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Matt Cain tied for third with four complete games, including two shutouts.
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Matt Cain tied for 12th in NL Cy Young Award voting with Bronson Arroyo.
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Matt Cain reached the playoffs for the first time in his career as the Giants won the NL West to reach the playoffs for the first time since 2003.
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Matt Cain was an All-Star for the second time in his career in 2011; however, he did not appear in the All-Star Game because he started the final regular season game prior to the All-Star contest.
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Matt Cain had one strikeout and one walk in the game, ending his Giants' record of 39 consecutive starts with more strikeouts than walks.
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Matt Cain earned a $5 million signing bonus, and earned $20 million each season from 2013 to 2017.
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Matt Cain was scheduled to become a free agent after the 2012 season.
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Later in that inning Hamels hit his first career home run off of Matt Cain, making this the first time since 2002 when two pitchers have homered off of each other in the same game.
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Matt Cain tied with six other players for sixth in the NL in wins, finished fourth with a 2.
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Matt Cain finished eighth with 193 strikeouts, joining teammates Bumgarner and Lincecum among the top 10 in the NL in that category.
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Matt Cain was one of seven NL players to throw two or more shutouts.
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Matt Cain reached the playoffs for the second time in his career as the Giants won the NL West after missing the playoffs in 2011.
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Matt Cain threw 125 pitches, the most by a pitcher in a perfect game, and received the most run support ever for a pitcher throwing a perfect game.
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Matt Cain singled against Rhiner Cruz and scored in the fifth inning.
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Matt Cain struggled for the remainder of the season before being sidelined due to elbow difficulties in July, pitching his last game of the season on July 9,2014.
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Matt Cain is the second Giant on the 2016 season to earn his one-hundredth career victory after teammate Johnny Cueto won his on April 26.
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Since 2005, Matt Cain was one of three starting pitchers in the starting rotation, along with Tim Lincecum and Madison Bumgarner, to win over one hundred games and strikeout over 1,500 batters.
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Matt Cain becomes the twelfth pitcher in franchise history and joins Hall of Famers Juan Marichal and Gaylord Perry as the only three pitchers in the San Francisco Era to reach the milestone.
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Matt Cain made several appearances in relief during the second half of the 2017 season and recorded his first career hold in August against the Milwaukee Brewers.
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Matt Cain faced elbow and hamstring troubles in the latter years of his career.
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On September 30,2017, Matt Cain pitched five shutout innings in his last career game.
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Matt Cain featured a mix of mostly four pitches: a four-seam fastball, a slider, a curveball, and a changeup.
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Matt Cain led with his four-seamer, throwing it over half the time in his career.
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Matt Cain's changeup was his secondary pitch to left-handed hitters, while he threw cutters as a secondary pitch to right-handed hitters.
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Matt Cain threw curveballs in roughly equal proportions to righties and lefties.
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Early in his career Matt Cain was a power pitcher whose fastball ranged from 94 to 98 mph.
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Matt Cain met his wife Chelsea Williams during spring training while she was a student at Arizona State University majoring in sociology.
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