What is rarer than a perfect game?

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 harder than a perfect game?

When the pitcher of one team is able to pitch the ball, and eventually did not allow his ball to be hit, then he is said to have made a 'no-hitter'. Like the 'perfect game,' this is another tough feat to achieve. This rarely occurs in a baseball game, and averages to happen only twice a year.

Is a cycle rarer than a perfect game?

There have been just 13 perfect games this century -- about one per decade. Since 1901, there have been 196 cycles (single, double, triple and home run by one player in one game) -- about one per league, per year. So, to have both occur on successive days is something special, right?

What's the rarest play in baseball?

Rarest of all is the unassisted triple play by an outfielder, performed only once in professional baseball history, by Walter Carlisle. It is possible for a team to score on a triple play, but that is also phenomenally rare.

Is a perfect game more rare than a no-hitter?

All perfect games are no-hitters, but no-hitters are more common than perfect games since they are not broken up by a walk, hit-by-pitch, or error. Still, pitching a no-hitter is quite an achievement. In a perfect game, the only probabilities involved are of getting on base and of an out.

There is No Such Thing as a Perfect Game

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.

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.

Has there ever been a 0 0 MLB game?

Incredibly, the game was scoreless until the bottom of the 24th, the longest any Major League game has ever stayed scoreless. The six-hour, six-minute contest at the Astrodome began with Hall of Famer Tom Seaver on the mound for the Mets and Don Wilson for the Astros. Both starters were at the top of their game.

Has there ever been a 0 0 baseball game?

The teams went 19 innings before darkness fell at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field, forcing the game to be called on account of darkness. In the American League, the longest 0–0 game was played between the Washington Senators and Detroit Tigers on July 16, 1909.

Who has hit 4 hr in a game?

Only one player has ever hit four home runs in a single Spring Training game: Henry Rodriguez of the Los Angeles Dodgers hit four home runs against the New York Mets on April 24, 1995.

How rare is triple play?

The unassisted triple play is one of the rarest fabulous feats in Major League baseball. It has been accomplished only fifteen times in baseball history and as illustrated in the quote below, it is a legacy that will follow each and every player who has ever accomplished this unbelievable feat.

What is the most perfect game ever?

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. The first two major league perfect games, and the only two of the premodern era, were thrown in 1880, five days apart.

How rare is no-hitter?

A no-hitter is a rare accomplishment for a pitcher or pitching staff—only 318 have been thrown in MLB history since 1876, an average of about two per year.

Has anyone ever lost a no-hitter?

On April 23, 1964, Ken Johnson of the Houston Colt . 45s became the first pitcher to throw a nine-inning no-hitter and lose. In fact, he is still the only individual to throw an official (nine-inning) no-hitter and lose.

What is the rarest achievement in sports?

During the last 125 years, over 5 million men have played college football. More than 25,000 of them have gone on to the pros. However, only ten have accomplished what might be the rarest achievement in the history of sport: winning the Heisman Trophy and being enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

What is the shortest MLB game ever?

September 28, 1919: Giants and Phillies record 51 outs in 51 minutes, the fastest game in major-league history – Society for American Baseball Research.

Has anyone gone 11 0 in MLB playoffs?

No.

Since the playoffs expanded to a three-series format in 1995, no team has yet gone 11-0 to win the World Series. In fact, the 2007 Colorado Rockies are the only team to have entered the World Series with a perfect 7-0 postseason record, and they promptly got swept by the aforementioned Red Sox.

Has there ever been a 20 inning baseball game?

On April 17, 2010, it took 20 innings and nearly seven hours in a game that was scoreless through 18. Both sides went a combined 1-for-25 with runners in scoring position. When the Mets finally crossed home plate in both the 19th and 20th innings, it was against Joe Mather, a position player pressed into pitching.

What is the shortest 9 inning baseball game?

In 1919, the New York Giants and Philadelphia Phillies played a nine-inning game for 51 minutes, the shortest game in major league history.

What is the most inning without a run?

During the 1988 Major League Baseball season, pitcher Orel Hershiser of the Los Angeles Dodgers set the MLB record for consecutive scoreless innings pitched. Over 59 consecutive innings, opposing hitters did not score a run against Hershiser. During the streak, he averted numerous high-risk scoring situations.

What is the longest no score in MLB?

Houston Astros 1, New York Mets 0 on April 15, 1968 – 24 innings. In what can only be described as two of the best pitching performances by MLB teams in the same game, the Mets and Houston Astros went 23 innings without scoring a single run.

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.

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.)

What are the rarest MLB pitches?

A screwball is a breaking ball designed to move in the opposite direction of just about every other breaking pitch. It is one of the rarest pitches thrown in baseball, mostly because of the tax it can put on a pitcher's arm.