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Lee Richmond, pitcher of the first perfect game in major league history. 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.
Starting from the 1984–85 NBA season, the NBA's first salary cap was introduced. The NBA salary cap is the maximum dollar amount each NBA team can spend on its players for the season. However, the NBA uses a "soft" salary cap, which allow NBA teams to exceed their allotted amount in order to sign players through significant "salary exceptions ...
The perfect game made him the fifth pitcher in Major League history (after Cy Young, Jim Bunning, Nolan Ryan, and Hideo Nomo) to pitch a no-hitter in both leagues. He also became the fifth pitcher in Major League history to throw both a no-hitter and a perfect game in his career (after Young, Bunning, Addie Joss , and Sandy Koufax ; since ...
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]
SGA ranks seventh in the NBA in steals per game, is tied with Derrick White for the lead in blocks by a guard and constantly churns out the type of hustle plays coaches dream their stars will make.
Here is the second installment of USA TODAY’s NBA MVP power rankings (stats and team records before Tuesday's games): Shai Gilgeous-Alexander reacts after scoring against the Orlando Magic. 5.
In 2006, he became the first rookie pitcher in the history of the game to win 10 games before the end of June and was named AL Rookie of the Year at the end of the season. During Game 1 of the 2006 World Series , Verlander was the Tigers starting pitcher against Anthony Reyes of the St. Louis Cardinals ; it was the first instance in which two ...
Koufax is considered one of the greatest big game pitchers in baseball history. Sabermetrician Bill James described Koufax as having a bigger impact on pennant races than any other pitcher in the 20th and 21st centuries, [ 150 ] and though his record across four World Series is 4–3, his 0.95 ERA and two World Series MVP Awards testify to how ...