Since the start of the season, only 23 perfect games have been tossed in the history of Major League Baseball. A perfect game is defined by a complete game pitched without a runner reaching base via a hit, walk, or error. While rare, some franchises, however, have seen it happen more than once in their history. In fact, there are two franchises that have each had three perfect games thrown by a pitcher. It would be a little less than 42 years before another Yankees hurler would throw a perfect game.
The next season, David Cone would add his name to the record book with the first-ever perfect game thrown during interleague play as he handcuffed the Montreal Expos during a win on July 18, The first-ever perfect game by a White Sox hurler came on April 30, , when Charlie Robertson, in the third start of his eight-year MLB career, tossed a decision over the Detroit Tigers.
It would be the 21st century before another White Sox pitcher would throw a perfect game. David Wells 34y11m27d. David Cone 36y6m16d. Mark Buehrle 29y4m. Tampa Bay. Dallas Braden 26y9m26d. Philip Humber 29y4m. Felix Hernandez 26y4m8d. Lee Richmond 23y1m7d. John Ward 20y3m14d. Jim Bunning 32y7m29d. It was the third time in the past four seasons that Tampa Bay was on the losing side of a perfect game.
Upton, and Ben Zobrist—joined Alfredo Griffin in having played in three perfect games for the losing team; all four also participated in Buehrle's and Braden's. Cain is the only pitcher to score a run during a perfect game Gregor Blanco followed him in the order and hit a home run. Seven perfect-game pitchers have also thrown at least one additional no-hitter: Young, Joss, Bunning, Koufax, Johnson, Buehrle, and Halladay.
Witt participated in a combined no-hitter. Koufax has the most total no-hitters of any perfect-game pitcher, with four. Richmond and Robertson were rookies, though each had made a single appearance in a previous season.
Although by the latter part of the twentieth century, major league games were being played predominantly at night, six of the last ten perfect games, and four of the last six, have taken place in the daytime.
Since , nine perfect games have been thrown with the DH rule in effect including one interleague game held at an American League park and only five without it. Of the thirty franchises that currently make up Major League Baseball, seven have never as of the end of the season been involved in a perfect game, win or lose, including three of the 'Original 16' franchises the Cardinals, Pirates, and Orioles and four of the fourteen teams that joined MLB in the expansion era the Royals, Brewers, Padres, and Rockies.
The table below shows the number of perfect games won and lost by the remaining twenty-three franchises. There have been three instances in which a major league pitcher retired every player he faced over nine innings without allowing a baserunner, but, by the current definition, is not credited with a perfect game, either because there was already a baserunner when he took the mound, or because the game went into extra innings and an opposing player eventually reached base:.
Four other games in which one team failed to reach base are not official perfect games because they were called off before nine innings were played: [50]. On March 14, , in a spring training game—by definition unofficial—the Red Sox used six pitchers to retire all 27 Toronto Blue Jays batters in a 5—0 victory. On thirteen occasions in Major League Baseball history, a perfect game has been spoiled when a batter reached base with two out in the ninth inning.
Unless otherwise noted, the pitcher in question finished and won the game without allowing any more baserunners: [55]. There have been fifteen occasions in Major League Baseball history when a pitcher—or, in one case, multiple pitchers—recorded at least 27 consecutive outs after one or more runners reached base.
In four instances, the game went into extra innings and the pitcher s recorded more than 27 consecutive outs:. In the eleven other instances, the leadoff batter or batters reached base in the first inning, followed by 27 consecutive batters or batters and baserunners being retired through the end of a nine-inning game. The remaining instances in which a pitcher recorded 27 consecutive outs in a game, noting how the opponent's leadoff batter or batters reached base:.
In Major League Baseball play since , with the essential modern rules in place, there have been ten instances when a pitcher allowed not a single baserunner through his pitching efforts over a complete game of at least nine innings, but was not awarded a perfect game because of one or more fielding errors:.
No otherwise perfect game in major league history has ever been spoiled solely by a dropped third strike, interference, or outfield error. On August 23, , the Dodgers' Rich Hill had been pitching perfectly when third baseman Logan Forsythe booted a grounder by the Pirates' first batter in the bottom of the ninth inning, Jordy Mercer.
It was the first time in major league history a perfect-game bid was ruined by an error in the ninth. Hill retired the next three batters, but as the Dodgers had not supported his effort with a single run as they failed to in the top of the first extra frame, as well , Hill took his no-hit, no-walk, no—hit batsman game into the bottom of the 10th inning.
The leadoff batter, Josh Harrison, became the first player ever to spoil a no-hitter with a walk-off homer in extra innings. On July 14, two pitchers, Ryne Stanek and Ryan Yarbrough of the Tampa Bay Rays, threw eight innings of a perfect game versus the Baltimore Orioles before the latter's ninth inning leadoff batter, Hanser Alberto, hit a single. A perfect game in Major League Baseball is a game in which a pitcher or combination of pitchers pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and no opposing batter reaches base.
A perfect game is also a no-hitter and a shutout. A fieldingerror that does not allow a batter to reach base, such as a misplayed foul ball, does not spoil a perfect game. The first confirmed use of the term perfect game was in ; the term's current definition was formalized in Although it is theoretically possible for several pitchers to combine for a perfect game as has happened 11 times at the major league level for a no-hitter , to date, every major league perfect game has been thrown by a single pitcher.
The first known use in print of the term perfect game occurred in Sanborn's report for the Chicago Tribune about Addie Joss's performance against the White Sox calls it 'an absolutely perfect game, without run, without hit, and without letting an opponent reach first base by hook or crook, on hit, walk, or error, in nine innings'.
Lanigan in his Baseball Cyclopedia , made in reference to Charlie Robertson's perfect game. As of , the current Major League Baseball definition of a perfect game is largely a side effect of the decision made by the major leagues' Committee for Statistical Accuracy on September 4, , to redefine a no-hitter as a game in which the pitcher or pitchers on one team throw a complete game of nine innings or more without surrendering a hit.
The definition of perfect game was made to parallel this new definition of the no-hitter, in effect substituting 'baserunner' for 'hit'. As a result of the redefinition, for instance, Harvey Haddix receives credit for neither a perfect game nor a no-hitter for his performance on May 26, , when he threw 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves before allowing a baserunner in the 13th.
Since the beginning of the MLB season, it was the third time that the Tampa Bay Rays were on the losing end of a perfect game. Clayton Kershaw is the only pitcher to make an all-strikeout perfect game in in high school with the final score of and a shortened game due to the mercy rule.
More AL East News ». View all AL East Sites. More AL Central News ». View all AL Central Sites. More AL West News ». View all AL West Sites. More NL East News ».
0コメント