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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 ...
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]
[137] [138] In the Phillies game that day, Phillies pitcher Zack Wheeler pitched a two-hit, complete game shutout in a 3–0 victory against the New York Mets, and became the first Phillies pitcher to retire 22 consecutive batters in a game since Halladay himself did so during his perfect game in 2010. When asked about Halladay after the game ...
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%).
Monmouth University students fighting to award Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game star in ESPN's "28 Outs: An Imperfect Story."
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]
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 ...