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East Cobb Baseball, also known as ECB, Inc. is a baseball program/complex located in the suburbs of the metro Atlanta area, United States that, as of 2007, was one of metro Atlanta's highest earners. [1] The founder and owner of the team is Guerry Baldwin, with Bill Clements a founding coach. [2]
Over the 154 years of Major League Baseball history, and over 238,500 games played, [ 1] there have been 24 official perfect games by the current definition. [ 2] No pitcher has thrown more than one. The perfect game thrown by Don Larsen in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series is the only postseason perfect game in major league history and one of ...
In a Major League Baseball game played on June 2, 2010, at Detroit's Comerica Park, Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga nearly became the 21st pitcher in Major League Baseball history to throw a perfect game. Facing the Cleveland Indians, [a] Galarraga retired the first 26 batters he faced. His bid for a perfect game was ruined one out ...
Perfect game (baseball) 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 base. [ 2] 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 ...
Don Larsen's perfect game. On October 8, 1956, in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series, pitcher Don Larsen of the New York Yankees threw a perfect game against the Brooklyn Dodgers at Yankee Stadium. It was the only no-hitter in World Series history until the Houston Astros pitching staff of Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero and Ryan ...
Jim Bunning with the Detroit Tigers in 1955. On June 21, 1964, Jim Bunning of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched the seventh perfect game in Major League Baseball history, defeating the New York Mets 6–0 in the first game of a doubleheader at Shea Stadium. A father of seven children at the time, Bunning pitched his perfect game on Father's Day.
For these three tournaments, the event was held in a single weekend. Its format was the six-team double-elimination format of NCAA Regionals at the time. 1998–2015 See, for example, 2001 America East Conference baseball tournament. For eighteen years, the format was a four-team double-elimination tournament. In some years, the event has been ...
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