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An immaculate inning occurs in baseball when a pitcher strikes out all three batters he faces in one inning using the minimum possible number of pitches: nine. [1] This has happened 115 times in Major League history and has been accomplished by 105 pitchers (80 right-handed and 25 left-handed).
As of 2024, the 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, 1991, 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. [15]
Roy Halladay is the only player to have thrown an extra-inning Maddux, throwing 99 pitches in 10 innings on September 6, 2003. [ 1 ] Since Lukehart coined the term in 2012, Henderson Álvarez (left) and Max Fried (right) are tied with the most Madduxes with four apiece as of May 2024 [update] .
Immaculate Grid is a browser game in which players get nine guesses to fill a 3x3 grid with professional athletes. Originally developed for baseball , it has since been expanded to each of the other major American professional sports , as well as soccer .
He had his contract purchased on June 23. Pérez pitched an immaculate inning in the 10th inning in a win against the Braves on July 8, 2011, striking out the side on nine total pitches, making him the second major-league pitcher to accomplish the feat in extra innings, the first having been thrown by Sloppy Thurston in 1923. [3]
In baseball, the statistic innings pitched (IP) is the number of innings a pitcher has completed, measured by the number of batters and baserunners that have been put out while the pitcher is on the pitching mound in a game. Three outs made is equal to one inning pitched. One out counts as one-third of an inning, and two outs as two-thirds of ...
In the fifth inning of a July 7, 2017, game against the Detroit Tigers, Carrasco pitched an immaculate inning, striking out the side on the minimum nine pitches. He became only the second pitcher in Indians history to do so, following Justin Masterson in 2014 , and the 84th in Major League history. [ 28 ]
In the seventh inning of that game, he pitched, as of 2023, the only immaculate inning in World Series play; his victims were Terry Pendleton, Tom Nieto and Brian Harper. Jackson's 1.04 post-season ERA with the Royals is the lowest in team history (min 10 IP). The Royals went on to win the World Series in seven games.