MLB PERFECT GAMES Every Perfect Game in Major League Baseball History |Baseball Almanac Words alone cannot describe pitching's top "club" and most desired goal — the masterpiece of any career, the pinnacle of the pitching aspect and one of the most difficult feats to achieve in the entire ...
postseason play-off, quickly took its place alongside theFourth of Julyand Christmas as one of the most popular annual rites. The series was, saidEverybody’s Magazinein 1911, “the veryquintessenceand consummation of the Most Perfect Thing in America.” Each fall it absorbed the entire nation...
1991: Dennis Martinez's perfect game Pitching for the Expos, Martinez threw the 13th of the 23 perfect games in MLB history on July 28, 1991, against the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. He was the first pitcher born outside the U.S. to pitch a perfect game; he and Félix Hernández are s...
The 2013 WBC was a display of dominance for the Dominican Republic, which completed a perfect 8-0 run through the tournament with its win over Puerto Rico in the final – the D.R.’s third win over Puerto Rico in that year's tournament. ...
The source of their frustration was Roki Sasaki, the 20-year-old ace of the Chiba Lotte Marines, who pitched only the 16th perfect game in Nippon Professional Baseball history. The youngest to achieve the feat, Sasaki also tied an NPB record with 19 strikeouts in Chiba’s 6-0 victory ove...
8, 1956, a glorious fall day in New York, Larsen mastered the game like no one before or since. Pitching for the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers, in a subway series matching two of the storied teams in baseball, Larsen pitched the only perfect game in World Series history....
In American Major League baseball history, by the current definition of “a perfect game”, there have been 20officialperfect games. There have been severalunofficialones. It is thrilling to watch a perfect game – and my baseball timing has been incredible on several occasions:I sawDave Cone’...
Perfect Games Top Posts Floyd Caves "Babe" Herman How Scott Boras Became a Baseball Super-Agent Remembering Astros' Closer and Surfer Dave Smith Michael Jordan in the Arizona Fall League in 1994 Herb Score Being Hit by a Liner in 1957 ...
One of Stengel’s World Series-winning squads was a part of arguably the most memorable moment in World Series history: in game five of the 1956 series, with the Yankees and their rivalBrooklyn Dodgerstied at two wins apiece, unheralded pitcherDon Larsen threw the onlyperfect gamein postseason...
There's a lot of phenomenal moments in the longest college baseball game, by innings, in NCAA history: the near-perfect relief performance by Texas' Austin Wood and the resilience of his counterpart in Boston College's Mike Belfiore. Not to mention, this was the second day of the 2009 Tex...