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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 first two perfect games occurred under rules that differed in many important respects from those of today's game: in 1880, for example, only underhand pitching—from a flat, marked-out box 45 feet from home plate—was allowed, it took eight balls to draw a walk, and a batter was not awarded first base if hit by a pitch. [3]
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]
One-Start Streamers. In order, here are the best streamers for the week, with their start date and Yahoo! roster rate in parentheses. Michael Wacha vs. TEX (Saturday, 57) Lance Lynn vs. CWS ...
It was the first perfect game since Seattle Mariners ace Félix Hernández threw one against the Tampa Bay Rays on Aug. 15, 2012. Yankees pitcher Domingo Germán throws 1st perfect game since 2012 ...
The Yankees' first perfect game was also thrown by a right-handed pitcher, Don Larsen, and came in Game 5 of the 1956 World Series. Larsen's perfect game was the only no-hitter in MLB postseason play until Roy Halladay of the Philadelphia Phillies pitched a no-hitter in Game 1 of the 2010 National League Division Series.
In the games where Arizona scored three or more runs, Johnson was 13–2. As his team only won 51 games that year, his ratio of winning 31.3% of his team's games was the highest for any starting pitcher since Steve Carlton in 1972 (who won 27 of the Phillies' 59 wins for an all-time record ratio of 45.8%).
Two-Start Pitchers (listed in order of preference) Dean Kremer, 17% rostered (vs. KC, @PIT) Kremer has marginal upside but deserves credit for producing a 3.25 ERA in the second half of last season.