![]() ![]() The most recent perfect game for MLB occurred on June 28, 2023, with Domingo Germán of the New York Yankees against the Oakland Athletics in a 11–0 victory, finishing with 9 strikeouts. Ron Hassey is the only catcher in MLB history to have caught more than one perfect game (his first was with pitcher Len Barker in 1981 and his second was with pitcher Dennis Martínez in 1991). By coincidence, Larsen was in attendance when Yankee pitcher David Cone threw a perfect game in 1999 on the same day that Larsen and Yogi Berra (the catcher in the 1956 perfect game) were invited to do the ceremonial first pitch. There has been one perfect game in the World Series, thrown by Don Larsen for the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers on October 8, 1956. Faut is the only professional baseball player, male or female, to have pitched two perfect games. Four of its players pitched a perfect game: Annabelle Lee in 1944, Carolyn Morris in 1945, Doris Sams in 1947, and Jean Faut in 1951 (against the Rockford Peaches) and again in 1953 (against the Kalamazoo Lassies). The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) existed from 1943 to 1954. The Chicago Tribune came close to the term in describing Lee Richmond's game for Worcester in 1880: "Richmond was most effectively supported, every position on the home nine being played to perfection." Similarly, in writing up John Montgomery Ward's 1880 perfect game, the New York Clipper described the "perfect play" of Providence's defense. Lanigan in his Baseball Cyclopedia, made in reference to Charlie Robertson's 1922 perfect game. Several sources have claimed that the first recorded usage of perfect game was by Ernest J. 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". The first known occurrence of the term perfect game in print was in 1908. ![]() See also: List of Major League Baseball perfect games Nippon Professional Baseball's 2007 Japan Series ended with a combined perfect game. Although it is possible for two or more pitchers to combine for a perfect game (which has happened 20 times in MLB no-hitters ), every MLB perfect game so far has been thrown by a single pitcher. In Major League Baseball (MLB), it has been achieved 24 times – 22 times since the modern era began in 1901, most recently by Domingo Germán of the New York Yankees on Jagainst the Oakland Athletics. The first known use of the term perfect game was in 1908 its current definition was formalized in 1991. Games in which a team reaches first base only in extra innings also do not qualify as perfect games. Games that last fewer than nine innings, regardless of cause, in which a team has no baserunners do not qualify as perfect games. ![]() A fielding error that does not allow a batter to reach base, such as a misplayed foul ball, does not spoil a perfect game. Therefore, if the runner advances and scores without any batters reaching base (by means of stolen base, sacrifice, fielder's choice, etc.), and this turns out to be the winning run, then the losing team will still be credited with a perfect game, despite losing the game. In 2020, a new rule was instituted that automatically places a runner on second base at the start of each half inning during extra innings this automatic runner would not cause a perfect game to be lost. To achieve a perfect game, a team must not allow any opposing player to reach base by any means: no hits, walks, hit batsmen, uncaught third strikes, catcher's or fielder's interference, or fielding errors which allow a batter to reach base.Ī perfect game, by definition, is also a no-hitter, and is also guaranteed to result in a win and a shutout if the game does not go into extra innings. In baseball, a perfect game is a game in which one or more pitchers complete a minimum of nine innings with no batter from the opposing team reaching any base. The "everlasting image" of New York Yankees catcher Yogi Berra leaping into the arms of pitcher Don Larsen after the completion of Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series ![]()
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