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Watson attended West Ouachita High School in West Monroe, Louisiana where he played baseball.He played shortstop and was the team's closer. [1] As a senior, he batted .481 with ten home runs, 46 RBIs, and 18 doubles and was named the All-Northeast Louisiana Big School Offensive Player of the Year for the third year in a row as West Ouachita finished as the Class 4A state runner-up. [2]
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 only three postseason no-hitters. The first two major league perfect games, and the only two of the premodern era, were thrown in 1880, five days apart.
On July 19, 1929, Essos pitcher Clyde Freeman threw a perfect game in a 7–inning game against the Lake Charles Newporters, a 4–0 Baton Rouge victory. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The Baton Rouge Highlanders (1930), [ 10 ] Baton Rouge Standards (1931) [ 11 ] and Baton Rouge Senators (1932) continued play in the Cotton States League. [ 12 ]
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]
The 2024 LSU Tigers baseball team represented Louisiana State University during the 2024 NCAA Division I baseball season. ... Perfect Game [9] 3: 3: 3: 3: 2: 5: 9: 16
This gave the men more confidence in their ball skills and a boost of improvement in each area of the game. In August 1931 a reporter for the Louisiana Weekly commented that the team was "outfitted with just about everything a good ball club needs" that included everything "from their baseball caps down to the mascot's water bucket." The ...
Major League Baseball pitchers who have pitched a perfect game (24 P) Pages in category "Major League Baseball perfect games" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total.
Ronald Ames Guidry (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ d r i /; born August 28, 1950), nicknamed "Louisiana Lightning" and "Gator", [1] is an American former professional baseball pitcher who played 14 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees. Guidry was also the pitching coach of the Yankees from 2006 to 2007. Guidry's major league career began ...