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The Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League (PGCBL) is a 16-team collegiate summer baseball league founded in 2010. As of 2022, all teams are within New York (state). All players in the league must have NCAA eligibility remaining in order to participate.
In Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB), the first perfect game was thrown by Hideo Fujimoto of the Giants on June 28, 1950, against the Nishi Nippon Pirates. [23] 16 total have been thrown in NPB, with the most recent perfect game for NPB by Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Rōki Sasaki on April 10, 2022. [24]
Rōki Sasaki threw the most recent NPB perfect game, on April 10, 2022. In baseball, throwing a perfect game is a pitching accomplishment in which one or more pitchers does not allow a baserunner on base over the course of one game. In Nippon Professional Baseball, a perfect game is an extremely rare occurrence, only occurring 16 times.
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]
April 7 – Opening Day of Major League Baseball's 2022 season. April 10 – Chiba Lotte Marines pitcher Rōki Sasaki throws a perfect game , the first in 28 years and the 16th in NPB history. Sasaki tied an existing NPB record by striking out 19 batters, and setting a new record by striking out 13 consecutive batters.
Before any draftees are signed by their major league team, Mississippi State was ranked 6th in the nation by Perfect Game. Perfect Game ranks players nationwide as the top 500. If there is no ranking, then the player was not in the top 500. If draft is not indicated, then the player was not drafted in this years draft. [7]
The 2022 American Athletic Conference baseball tournament was held at BayCare Ballpark in Clearwater, Florida, from May 24 through 29. The event, held at the end of the conference regular season, determined the champion of the American Athletic Conference for the 2022 season.
The annual tournament determined the tournament champion of Division I Conference USA in college baseball. The tournament champion, Louisiana Tech, then earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2022 NCAA Division I baseball tournament. The tournament has been held every year since 1996, except for 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic.