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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]
His Fielding Independent Pitching (FIP) (a defense independent pitching statistic measuring a pitcher's effectiveness at limiting walks, home runs, and hits while accumulating strikeouts) of 1.39 was the lowest single-season total in the major leagues since 1910 among pitchers who threw more than 35 innings. The second best FIP in baseball in ...
Starting pitcher: 2–0 record over 2 games started; both were complete games; 1 shutout; 2 earned runs allowed over 18 innings pitched; 10 strikeouts [22] 1956: Don Larsen: New York Yankees: Starting pitcher: 1–0 record over 2 games started; perfect game in Game 5; 7 strikeouts; Pitched first no-hitter in World Series history [23] [24] 1957 ...
According to Bill James' game score statistic, Cain's perfect game tied Sandy Koufax's perfect game for the most dominant modern-era perfect game. [12] Cain's perfect game would be the first of four no-hitters thrown by Giants pitching in four consecutive seasons, as Tim Lincecum would no-hit the San Diego Padres in both 2013 (in San Diego) and ...
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]
Baseball’s most dominant pitcher is only 20 years old. It’s been 17 innings since he last allowed so much as a baserunner. On April 10, he fired a perfect game with 19 strikeouts.In his next ...
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 .
Verlander won both the 2011 AL Cy Young Award and the AL MVP Award. He was the first pitcher to claim an AL MVP Award since Dennis Eckersley in 1992, the first starting pitcher to do so since Roger Clemens in 1986, and the fourth Tigers pitcher to do so in franchise history, joining Denny McLain , Hal Newhouser (1944, 1945), and Willie ...