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In baseball, a perfect game occurs when one or more pitchers for one team complete a full game with no batter from the opposing team reaching base. [1] In baseball leagues that feature nine-inning games like Major League Baseball (MLB), this means the pitchers involved must record an out against 27 consecutive batters, without allowing anyone to reach on a hit, walks, hit batsmen, uncaught ...
Called a perfect game on October 29, 2022. Patrick Hoberg (born September 11, 1986) is an American Major League Baseball (MLB) umpire . In the 2022 World Series he called the first ever “perfect game” by an umpire by not getting a single ball or strike call incorrect.
Galarraga's near-perfect game was the first such game since Mike Mussina's bid for a perfect game on September 2, 2001, which was broken up by 27th batter Carl Everett. [12] It was also the third time for a Tigers pitcher to come so close to a perfect game, as Tommy Bridges missed retiring the 27th batter on August 5, 1932 [ 13 ] and Milt ...
A solved game is a game whose outcome (win, lose or draw) can be correctly predicted from any position, assuming that both players play perfectly.This concept is usually applied to abstract strategy games, and especially to games with full information and no element of chance; solving such a game may use combinatorial game theory or computer assistance.
On April 10, 2022, Rōki Sasaki of the Chiba Lotte Marines of Nippon Professional Baseball's (NPB) Pacific League threw a perfect game against the Orix Buffaloes at Zozo Marine Stadium in Chiba City. It was the 16th perfect game in NPB history. Sasaki tied a NPB single-game record with 19 strikeouts and set an NPB record with 13 consecutive ...
The Perfect Game: A Classic Collection of Facts, Figures, Stories and Characters from the Society for American Baseball Research (Taylor). ISBN 0-87833-815-2; Anderson, David W. (2000). More Than Merkle: A History of the Best and Most Exciting Baseball Season in Human History (Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press). ISBN 0-8032-1056-6
"Perfect Game" is the third single released by the Thompson Twins and the first taken from their debut album, A Product Of... (Participation). [2] It was released in January 1981 on the T Records imprint, a label created by the band and distributed through the Fame/EMI label. The B-side to the single is the single mix of "Politics".
The perfect game is, as of 2022, the most recent no-hitter in Ranger history. Rogers said he did not think about the perfect game until the ninth inning—and the bid was almost broken up one batter in. Rookie center fielder Rusty Greer preserved the bid by making a diving catch of Rex Hudler 's sinking line drive to right-center leading off ...