How many perfect games in history?

How many perfect games have there been in MLB history? There have been 23 perfect games in MLB history, with the first two coming just days apart all the way back in 1880 courtesy of Lee Richmond and John Ward.

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.

How many perfect games are there in MLB history?

There are only 23 official perfect games recorded in MLB history. That's not many when you consider there have been over 140 years of major league baseball.

When was the last perfect game?

The most recent perfect game for MLB was on August 15, 2012, Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners against the Tampa Bay Rays.

Has anyone thrown 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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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.)

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.

What is the rarest baseball play?

Unassisted triple plays

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.

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.

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.

Has there ever been a perfect inning?

Use of the term "immaculate inning" first appeared in newspaper reporting after 2000. Seven pitchers have accomplished the feat more than once in their career, including Hall-of-Famers Lefty Grove, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan, and Randy Johnson, and currently active pitchers Chris Sale, Max Scherzer, and Kevin Gausman.

How rare is a perfect inning?

In a 2018 research project, Spaeder noted that there were just 23 perfect games – or 0.0106%—out of over 216,000 games in baseball history. But there were just 91 immaculate innings, or 0.0045%, in roughly two million innings in baseball history.

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.

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.

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.

Who pitched 2 no-hitters in a row?

More than 9,000 men have taken the mound in a big league game, but what pitcher Johnny Vander Meer accomplished more than three quarters of a century ago by tossing back-to-back no-hitters is considered by many one of the game's most unbreakable records.

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 and the game in the 13th inning. The game was played at Milwaukee County Stadium.

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.

What baseball records will never be broken?

What is the tragic number in baseball?

Tragic numbers, also called elimination numbers, or E, are the opposite of what magic numbers are. We calculate them by subtracting the losses of our team and winnings of the opponent team from the total number of games to be played, plus one, i.e., 163. This number determines how many losses will eliminate our team.

What is the biggest comeback in MLB history?

The biggest comeback in MLB history occurred on August 5th, 2001, when the Cleveland Indians came back from a 12-run deficit to beat the Seattle Mariners 15-14 in extra innings.

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.

Who threw the most 1 hitters?

Nolan Ryan's first no-hitter

In addition to his seven no-hitters, Ryan threw 12 one-hitters, tied with Feller for the most since at least 1901.

Who is the closest pitcher to Nolan Ryan?

Justin Verlander, former Detroit Tiger and current Houston Astro, is currently the best pitcher in baseball; however, his time is running short as he is getting too old. While he is the closest active player to Nolan's record, he is still more than 2,500 strikeouts behind Ryan.