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Robertson was the White Sox's starting pitcher for their game against the Tigers in Detroit on Sunday, April 30, 1922. The 26-year-old Robertson, who had played for the American Association's Minneapolis Millers the previous season, was making his fourth start in Major League Baseball. [1]
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. He pitched one season for the St ...
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.
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.
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]
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.
Pages in category "Major League Baseball pitchers who have pitched a perfect game" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The perfect game was the first regular season perfect game since Charlie Robertson's perfect game in 1922 (Don Larsen had pitched a perfect game in between, in the 1956 World Series), as well as the first in modern-day National League history (two perfect games had been pitched in 1880).