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Who got robbed of a perfect game?

It's one of the most infamous mistakes in sports history. Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was denied a perfect game in 2010 when an umpire
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In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of the game and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and handling the disciplinary actions. The term is often shortened to the colloquial form ump.
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erroneously ruled that the 27th batter, with two outs in the ninth inning, had beaten a throw to first base.
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Who was the umpire that stole the perfect game?

"I don't want to be known as Jim Joyce, the guy that blew the perfect game. But I think that's inevitable." Why? "Because I'm Jim Joyce," he says, "the umpire who blew the perfect game."
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Who lost perfect game on bad call?

Back on June 2, 2010, Tigers starting pitcher Armando Galarraga threw a perfect game. He retired the first 27 batters he faced. Unfortunately, the 27th out was actually an incorrect safe call by first-base umpire Jim Joyce.
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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 blew the Tigers perfect game?

Look no further than Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga's almost perfect game on June 10, 2010, at Comerica Park. It's dubbed the "Imperfect Game" or the "28-out Perfect Game" because of a critical blown call on umpire Jim Joyce's part.
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Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game gets RUINED! (2010)

Has anyone ever been pulled from a perfect game?

In over 120 years, only twice has a pitcher been pulled from a game after throwing 7 or more perfect innings. Both times, Dave Roberts was the manager who pulled them. Morita Nobuhiro and 2,340 others like this. This early in the season, shortened spring, pitcher with arm issues.
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Has anyone thrown back to back perfect games?

No pitcher in the history of big-time pro baseball has ever thrown back-to-back perfect games. (It has been done in college softball and high school baseball.)
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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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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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Who throws the slowest pitch in MLB?

Brock Holt, Texas Rangers, 31 mph

Holt needed just 10 pitches to get their the inning, and one of those was a 31 mph “eephus” pitch that is the slowest to come off the mound … and it was even a called strike as well.
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Who has caught the most perfect games?

Hassey is notable for being the only catcher in MLB history to have caught more than one perfect game (the first with Len Barker in 1981 and his second with Dennis Martínez in 1991).
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Who threw most perfect games?

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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Who was the baseball umpire killed?

Moments after signaling for the second base umpire to come in and replace him, McSherry stumbled forward and collapsed face-first onto the turf. Resuscitative efforts were begun on McSherry and he was taken to University Hospital in Cincinnati, but was pronounced dead on arrival. He was 51 years old.
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How much does perfect game pay umpires?

How much does an Umpire make at Perfect Game USA in the United States? Average Perfect Game USA Umpire hourly pay in the United States is approximately $29.26, which is 14% above the national average.
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Who is the hardest pitcher ever?

1. Jhoan Duran, RP, Twins. Duran is the only pitcher in MLB averaging better than 100 mph on his fastball, and he's been a dominant reliever for Minnesota. He has a 2.81 ERA and 36/4 K/BB in 25.2 innings with four saves.
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Who is the hardest pitcher?

The fastest documented fastball in baseball history was thrown by left-hander Aroldis Chapman, currently a relief pitcher for the New York Yankees. Chapman had the speed tattooed on the inside of his left wrist: 105.1 mph.
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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 the rarest thing in baseball?

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.
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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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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.
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Who pitched 3 no-hitters in a row?

In order to break this record, a pitcher would have to pitch three consecutive no-hitters — simply impossible! 1938 was Vander Meer's first full season; however, the often wild throwing lefty did not let that get to him.
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Has a team ever been no-hit twice?

On May 2, 1917, a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Cincinnati Reds reached the end of nine innings in a hitless scoreless tie, the only time in baseball history that neither team has had a hit in regulation.
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