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Robertson's uniform was checked, and Detroit kept several game balls, but nothing was ever found. In the ninth inning, Robertson retired pinch hitter Johnny Bassler for the final out. [1] The game lasted one hour and 55 minutes. [2] It was 34 years before anyone else pitched a perfect game in the majors.
Robertson's perfect game was only his fifth appearance, and fourth start, in the big leagues. He finished his career with a 49–80 record, the fewest wins of any perfect-game pitcher until Dallas Braden; Robertson's winning percentage of .380 remains the lowest of anyone who threw a perfect game.
Robertson's perfect game was the last for 34 years, when Don Larsen pitched one in the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers; the next regular season perfect game would not come until Jim Bunning's perfect game in 1964. [3] After the perfect game, he suffered arm troubles for the rest of his career.
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]
As defined by Major League Baseball, "in a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game." [2] These feats were achieved by Charlie Robertson in 1922, which was the first perfect game on the road in MLB history, Mark Buehrle in 2009, [4] and Philip Humber in 2012.
Pages in category "Major League Baseball perfect games" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... Charlie Robertson's perfect game;
Working in an era during which most major league games used no more than two umpires (and sometimes only one), Evans single-handedly umpired seven double-headers in eight days during the 1907 season. He was the base umpire for Charlie Robertson's perfect game on April 30, 1922. [7] Unlike many umpires, Evans never made claims to infallibility.
On Wednesday, May 8, against the Minnesota Twins, Hunter pitched the ninth perfect game in baseball history and the first in 46 years in the American League since Charlie Robertson's perfect game in 1922, (excluding Don Larsen's perfect game in the 1956 World Series). [7]