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Larsen was the only perfect game pitcher to attend another perfect game, until Cone and fellow pitcher Dallas Braden were in Oakland for Domingo German’s perfect game in 2023 as a TV analyst for the New York Yankees and Oakland Athletics respectively. No Expo worked even a three-ball count. [34]
Don James Larsen (August 7, 1929 – January 1, 2020) was an American professional baseball pitcher.During a 15-year Major League Baseball (MLB) career, he pitched from 1953 to 1967 for seven different teams: the St. Louis Browns / Baltimore Orioles (1953–54; 1965), New York Yankees (1955–1959), Kansas City Athletics (1960–1961), Chicago White Sox (1961), San Francisco Giants (1962 ...
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 Pressly threw a combined no-hitter in the 2022 World Series against the ...
Larsen, the only pitcher to throw a perfect game in the World Series, died Wednesday in Idaho. He was 90.
The highlight was Don Larsen's perfect game in Game 5, during which he struck out seven batters. Despite his shaky start in Game 2, in which he allowed four unearned runs off one hit, Larsen was named the Series MVP for his perfect game. The Dodgers scored 19 runs in the first two games, but only six in the remaining five games, with just one ...
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 ...
On May 17, 1998, David Wells stunned the world by retiring 27 Twins batters in order, becoming an icon whose feat continues to impress, two decades later.
Pitcher. Jim Kaat [3] (1973 ... Mark Buehrle's perfect game against Tampa Bay ... (only pitcher with two no-hitters in the decade, including game on April 18, 2007 ...