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Has anyone ever lost a perfect game?

On May 26, 1959, Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates pitched a perfect game for 12 innings against the Milwaukee Braves, but lost the no-hitter
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Major League Baseball (MLB) officially defines a no-hitter as a completed game in which a team that batted in at least nine innings recorded no hits. A pitcher who prevents the opposing team from achieving a hit is said to have "thrown a no-hitter".
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and the game in the 13th inning. The game was played at Milwaukee County Stadium.
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Is it possible to lose with a perfect game?

This is not likely to happen. If the game is scoreless after nine, the starting pitcher probably comes out of the game, in which case his outing does not go in the record books as a perfect game. Obviously not. To get credit for a perfect game, the other team can't have a single batter reach base.
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Has anyone had 2 perfect games?

No major league player has ever thrown two perfect games, although Jean Faut of the AAGPBL accomplished the feat with perfect games in 1951 and 1953.
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Has anyone thrown more than 1 perfect game?

No pitcher has ever thrown more than one. The perfect game thrown by Don Larsen in game 5 of the 1956 World Series is the only postseason perfect game in major league history and one of only three postseason no-hitters.
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Has there ever been a walk off perfect game?

Enrique Hernández singled in Puerto Rico's tenth run in the eighth inning and it was a mercy rule walk-off. So this was a combined eight-inning perfect game with a walk-off and a 10-0 score.
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Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game gets RUINED! (2010)

What is the longest perfect game?

Haddix took a perfect game into the 13th inning against the Milwaukee Braves on May 26, 1959. He retired 36 consecutive batters in 12 innings, essentially relying on two pitches: fastball and slider.
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What is the most dominant perfect game ever?

On June 13, 2012, against the Houston Astros, Matt Cain delivered one of the most dominant performances that the game has ever seen. Cain struck out 14 Astros en route to throwing a season-high 125 pitches.
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Has there ever been a 27 pitch game?

Necciai is best remembered for the unique feat of striking out 27 batters in a nine-inning game, which he accomplished while playing with the Class-D Appalachian League team, the Bristol Twins, on May 13, 1952.
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Did Nolan Ryan ever throw a perfect game?

He is tied with Bob Feller for the most one-hitters, with 12. Ryan also pitched 18 two-hitters. Despite this, he never pitched a perfect game, nor did he ever win a Cy Young Award; both were largely attributed to his high walk rate.
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Who threw fastest pitch ever recorded?

What is the fastest pitch ever thrown in history? On Sept. 24, 2010, Chapman made MLB history. Then a rookie relief pitcher for the Cincinnati Reds, the fireballer unleashed a fastball clocked at 105.1 mph by PITCH/fx.
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What is rarer than a perfect game?

The rarest type of triple play, and one of the rarest events of any kind in baseball, is for a single fielder to complete all three outs. There have only been 15 unassisted triple plays in MLB history, making this feat rarer than a perfect game.
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Who got robbed of a perfect game?

In 1991, Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Harvey Haddix was removed from the sport's no-hitter list 32 years after he threw what was classified at the time as a no-hitter. (He had thrown 12 perfect innings, but lost the perfect game on an error and a hit in the 13th inning.)
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How rare is a perfect game?

Again, the true odds depend on the pitcher and the team he's pitching against. Some games will have odds slightly better, and some will have odds slightly worse. But they should even out, making our odds of 1 in 46,800 a good estimate for the average game.
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Do errors ruin perfect games?

A fielding error that does not allow a batter to reach base, such as a misplayed foul ball, does not spoil a perfect game.
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What is the lowest perfect game grade?

Perfect Game uses an amateur grading system from 1-10. The MLB uses a grading system of 2-8 or 20-80.
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Can a perfect game be 8 innings?

World Baseball Classic history was made Monday night. Four Puerto Rico pitchers tossed a combined eight-inning perfect game against Israel (PR 10, ISR 0). The game ended after eight innings because of the mercy rule. Starter José De León retired all 17 batters he faced before reaching the WBC pitch limit.
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Who threw 7 no-hitters?

The pitcher who holds the record for the most no-hitters is Nolan Ryan, who threw seven in his 27-year career.
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How fast was Nolan Ryan's fastest pitch?

Nolan Ryan: 108.1 MPH.
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What's better no-hitter or perfect game?

Any no-hitter that goes nine innings but is forced to extra innings can only remain a no-hitter if no hits are given up in the extra frames. A perfect game is a no-hitter in which no runner is allowed to reach base, whether by hit, base-on-balls, hit-by-pitch or error.
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What pitch is banned in MLB?

A spitball is an illegal baseball pitch in which the ball has been altered by the application of a foreign substance such as saliva or petroleum jelly. This technique alters the wind resistance and weight on one side of the ball, causing it to move in an atypical manner.
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What is a 3 pitch inning called?

You've probably heard of it -- an immaculate inning is when a pitcher strikes out all three batters in an inning, on three pitches each. The immaculate inning used to be very rare -- there were none from 1929-52.
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Has there ever been a 2 pitch inning?

Hayden Deal of the Rome Braves threw perhaps the first two-pitch, three-out inning in MiLB history | MLB.com.
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What is rarer a perfect game or no-hitter?

There have been 316 officially recognized no-hitters (including two this season), but only 23 of them (including postseason) were perfect games. And in the last 10 years, the distinction between the two has been especially, frustratingly clear.
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When was the last no-hitter?

The most recent major league no-hitter was thrown by Cristian Javier, Bryan Abreu, Rafael Montero, and Ryan Pressly of the Houston Astros against the Philadelphia Phillies during Game 4 of the World Series on November 2, 2022.
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