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Lee Richmond, June 12, 1880. As we mentioned earlier, it was a bit easier to throw a perfect game back in 1880. Batters couldn't reach base by getting hit by a pitch, for starters, and foul balls could be caught on one bounce for an out - something that Richmond benefitted from three times during his start against the Cleveland Blues. Perfect Game USA is devoted to furthering the development and career of the talented high school baseball players. The most respected scouting service in the industry. × For all Red Flag Tournaments all entry gates and merchandise kiosks are now cashless. I have had to take classes for MLB Pitch Smart in the past for LL All Stars, so I am pretty familiar with them. The issue that is coming up is the pitch count and crossing a threshold during a batter. Per the PG website: “Once a pitcher reaches his daily maximum limit, he must be removed from the game.

On May 18, 2004, Randy Johnson, who was a pitcher for the Major League Baseball (MLB) Arizona Diamondbacks, pitched a perfect game against the Atlanta Braves. The game took place at Turner Field in Atlanta in front of a crowd of 23,381 people.^[1] Johnson, who was 40 at the time, was the oldest pitcher in MLB history to throw a perfect game, surpassing Cy Young who was 37 when he threw his perfect game in 1904.^[2] This perfect game was the 17th in baseball history, with the 16th perfect game being David Cone in 1999.^[3]Johnson's perfect game was also the seventh in National League history, the predecessor being Dennis Martínez in 1991.^[3]

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Background[edit]

Of the 20 perfect games for which pitch counts are available, Addie Joss's was the most efficient–74 pitches, fewer than three per batter. Joss's was the most pressure-packed of any regular-season perfect game. With just four games left on their schedule, the Cleveland Naps were involved in a three-way pennant race with the Tigers and the. Perfect Game USA is devoted to furthering the development and career of the talented high school baseball players. The most respected scouting service in the industry. × For all Red Flag Tournaments all entry gates and merchandise kiosks are now cashless.

Going into the game, Johnson had a win-loss record of 3–4 with a 2.83 earned run average (ERA) in eight games.^[4] On April 16, 2004, Johnson pitched a complete gameshutout against the San Diego Padres.^[4]

Game summary[edit]

The game started at 7:36 p.m. in front of 23,381 people at Turner Field in Atlanta.^[1] The game was nationally televised by TBS as part of the Braves' TV contract at the time and on FSN Arizona in the Diamondbacks' local market. Johnson's catcher for the game was Robby Hammock,^[5] who was playing his second season in the Majors. Johnson later praised Hammock stating, 'I only shook [Hammock] off two or three times..He called a great game. The thing is he was probably the most excited guy in the clubhouse, and I'm happy for that. He's come a long way.'^[5] The last batter of the game was pinch-hitterEddie Pérez, who was struck out on a 98 miles per hour (158 km/h) fastball.^[6] Johnson struck out 13 batters in the game, the third-highest strikeout count in an MLB perfect game behind Sandy Koufax's 14 Ks in 1965 and Matt Cain's 14 Ks in 2012.^[6] The perfect game was Johnson's second no-hitter, the first in 1990 on the Seattle Mariners.^[7] Johnson's perfect game was the first in the MLB since David Cone on July 18, 1999 for the New York Yankees,^[8] and the first in the National League since Dennis Martínez of the Montreal Expos on July 28, 1991.^[8] Johnson, who was 40 at the time, surpassed Cy Young as the oldest pitcher to throw a perfect game in MLB history.^[2] Young, who achieved the feat in 1904, was 37 at the time.^[2]

-Johnny Estrada's first at-bat in the second inning was the longest of the night, requiring 10 pitches before striking out swinging on the 11th pitch. It was the only Braves at-bat that reached three balls in the count.

-Veteran Chipper Jones struck out all three times.

-Andruw Jones and Mark DeRosa were the only Braves batters without a strikeout.

-The play that came closest to a hit was Mike Hampton's second at-bat in the sixth inning when a chop ground ball dribbling left of the second base bag resulted in Alex Cintrón performing a do-or-die running grab and throw to the first baseman, Shea Hillenbrand for the out.

Game statistics[edit]

General reference

May 18, 2004 Arizona Diamondbacks at Atlanta Braves Play by Play and Box ScoreBaseball-Reference.com Sports Reference, LLC. Retrieved August 4, 2010.

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Box score[edit]

Other info[edit]

• Pitches-strikes: Johnson 117-87, Hampton 107-71.
• Ground outs-fly outs: Johnson 7-7, Hampton 13-8.
• Batters faced: Johnson 27, Hampton 38.
• Umpires: HP: Greg Gibson. 1B: Bruce Dreckman. 2B: Gerry Davis. 3B: Larry Poncino.
• Weather: 73 degrees, cloudy.
• Wind: 5 mph, Out to CF.
• Time: 2:13.
• Attendance: 23,381.
• Venue: Turner Field.

Reactions[edit]

Robby Hammock, the catcher of Johnson's perfect game:

Robin Yount, the bench coach of the Diamondbacks at the time:

Luis Gonzalez, left fielder for the Diamondbacks at the time:

Bob Brenly, Diamondbacks manager at the time:

Footnotes[edit]

• ^aEddie Pérezpinch hit for pitcherMike Hampton in the bottom of the ninth inning.^[1]

References[edit]

1. ^ ^abc'May 18, 2004 Arizona Diamondbacks at Atlanta Braves Play by Play and Box Score'. Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
2. ^ ^abc'Oldest pitchers to toss perfectos'. MLB.com. May 18, 2004. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
3. ^ ^ab'Perfect game list'. MLB.com. May 18, 2004. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
4. ^ ^ab'Randy Johnson 2004 Pitching Gamelogs'. Baseball-Reference. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
5. ^ ^abcdeGeorge Henry (May 19, 2004). 'Hammock lives dream, catches gem'. MLB.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
6. ^ ^abc'Johnson K's 13 in perfect effort'. ESPN.com. May 18, 2004. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
7. ^'Randy Johnson, 40, Hurls Perfect Game'. The New York Times. May 19, 2004. Retrieved August 4, 2010.
8. ^ ^ab'Randy Johnson pitches perfect game'. UPI. May 18, 2004. Retrieved August 4, 2010.

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A perfect game in Major League Baseball is a game in which a pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and no opposing batter reaches base.^[2] To achieve a perfect game, a team must not allow an opposing player to reach base by any means, including hits, walks, hit batsmen, or fielding errors; in short, '27 up, 27 down' (for a nine-inning game). The feat has been achieved 23 times in MLB history – 21 times since the modern era began in 1900, most recently by Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners on August 15, 2012. A perfect game is also a no-hitter and a shutout. A fieldingerror that does not allow a batter to reach base, such as a misplayed foul ball, does not spoil a perfect game.^[3] Weather-shortened contests in which a team has no baserunners and games in which a team reaches first base only in extra innings do not qualify as perfect games under the present definition.

The first confirmed use of the term perfect game was in 1908; the term's current definition was formalized in 1991. Although it is theoretically possible for several pitchers to combine for a perfect game (as has happened 11 times at the major league level for a no-hitter), to date, every major league perfect game has been thrown by a single pitcher.^[4]

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In Eastern Asian leagues such as Nippon Professional Baseball, KBO League, or Chinese Professional Baseball League, only Complete Perfect Games were recorded as official.

History[edit]

The first known use in print of the term perfect game occurred in 1908. I. E. Sanborn's report for the Chicago Tribune about Addie Joss's performance against the White Sox calls it 'an absolutely perfect game, without run, without hit, and without letting an opponent reach first base by hook or crook, on hit, walk, or error, in nine innings'.^[5] Several sources have claimed (erroneously) that the first recorded usage of the term perfect game was by Ernest J. Lanigan in his Baseball Cyclopedia, made in reference to Charlie Robertson's 1922 perfect game.^[6] The Chicago Tribune came close to the term in describing Richmond's game in 1880: 'Richmond was most effectively supported, every position on the home nine being played to perfection.'^[7] Similarly, in writing up John Montgomery Ward's 1880 perfect game, the New York Clipper described the 'perfect play' of Providence's defense.^[8]

As of 2014, the current Major League Baseball definition of a perfect game is largely a side effect of the decision made by the major leagues' Committee for Statistical Accuracy on September 4, 1991, to redefine a no-hitter as a game in which the pitcher or pitchers on one team throw a complete game of nine innings or more without surrendering a hit.^[9] That decision removed a number of games that had long appeared in the record books: those lasting fewer than nine innings, and those in which a team went hitless in regulation but then got a hit in extra innings. The definition of perfect game was made to parallel this new definition of the no-hitter, in effect substituting 'baserunner' for 'hit'. As a result of the 1991 redefinition, for instance, Harvey Haddix receives credit for neither a perfect game nor a no-hitter for his performance on May 26, 1959, when he threw 12 perfect innings against the Milwaukee Braves before allowing a baserunner in the 13th.^[10]

There has been one perfect game in the World Series, thrown by Don Larsen for the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers on October 8, 1956. By coincidence, the second Yankee pitcher to throw a perfect game, David Wells in 1998, graduated from the same high school as Larsen - Point Loma High School in San Diego, California.^[11] In a further coincidence, Larsen was in attendance when the third Yankee pitcher to throw a perfect game, David Cone in 1999, performed the feat on the same day that Larsen and Yogi Berra (the catcher in the 1956 perfect game) were invited to do the ceremonial first pitch.^[12]

Ron Hassey is the only catcher in MLB history to have caught more than one perfect game (his first was with pitcher Len Barker in 1981 and his second was with pitcher Dennis Martínez in 1991).^[13][14]

The most recent perfect game pitched in Major League Baseball was thrown by Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners against the Tampa Bay Rays on August 15, 2012.^[15] He struck out the side twice and struck out twelve total batters in the 1-0 victory over Tampa Bay. Since the beginning of the 2009 MLB season, it was the third time that the Tampa Bay Rays were on the losing end of a perfect game.

Clayton Kershaw is the only pitcher to make an all-strikeout perfect game in 2006 in high school with the final score of 13-0 and a shortened game due to the mercy rule.

The only perfect game thrown in a Little League World Series championship was by Angel Macias of the Monterrey, Mexico, team in 1957.^[16]

See also[edit]

• Eight-ender in curling
• For Love of the Game, a 1991 novel by Pulitzer Prize–winning author Michael Shaara
• Golden set in tennis
• Maximum break in snooker
• Nine-dart finish in darts
• Perfect game in bowling
• The Perfect Game, a 2009 movie

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Notes[edit]

1. ^Madden, Bill (September 12, 2008). 'Yogi Berra's Favorite Stadium Moment: Don Larsen's Perfect Game'. Daily News. Retrieved February 5, 2010.
2. ^'MLB Official Info'. MLB Advanced Media. 2019. Retrieved July 14, 2019.
3. ^'MLB Miscellany: Rules, Regulations and Statistics'. Major League Baseball. Retrieved August 20, 2007.
4. ^'History: No-hitters'. Major League Baseball. Retrieved August 22, 2007.
5. ^Deutsch et al. (1975), p. 68. This source also includes an 1880 clipping from the New York Herald describing Lee Richmond's perfect game for Worcester. A double error by Cleveland resulted in the lone run scoring, and the writer described it as 'the only lapse from perfect play made by the Clevelands during the game'; the use of the word 'perfect' in this context refers only to defensive play, a different meaning than its modern baseball sense, as Cleveland's pitcher also surrendered three hits and a walk. See Deutsch et al. (1975), p. 14. Writeups for the Ward perfect game of 1880 and the Young game of 1904 describe the games as 'wonderful' and other effusive terms, but do not use the term 'perfect game'.
6. ^Buckley (2002), p. 16, citing Paul Dickson, The Dickson Baseball Dictionary (1989); Coffey (2004), p. 50. The Baseball Cyclopedia reference came in a supplement to the 1922 edition of the book (a publication of Baseball Magazine) and was worded thus: 'Charles Robertson of Chicago Americans pitched an absolutely perfect no-hit game against Detroit on April 30, 1922, no one reaching first.' The publication listed all the perfect games to that point (a total of five, including Robertson's) and used the term 'perfect game' matter-of-factly, possibly indicating the term was already familiar to the readership. Lanigan's work references a 1914 book called Balldom as a source for his list of perfect games, although Balldom itself does not use the term 'perfect game', merely characterizing the games as 'no batter reached first base.' Lanigan was also familiar with Sanborn's baseball articles, making various references to him elsewhere in the Cyclopedia, although there is nothing indicating that Sanborn necessarily inspired Lanigan's use of the term.
7. ^Buckley (2002), p. 15.
8. ^Buckley (2002), p. 26.
9. ^Young (1997), p. 29.
10. ^Forker, Obojski, and Stewart (2004), p. 116.
11. ^'David Wells Field in Point Loma gets renovated'. ABC 10 News. July 1, 2014. Archived from the original on 23 July 2014. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
12. ^'David Cone Perfect Game Box Score by Baseball Almanac'. Baseball-almanac.com. 1999-07-18. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
13. ^'Len Barker Perfect Game Box Score'. Baseball-Almanac. Retrieved April 27, 2012.
14. ^'Dennis Martinez Perfect Game Box Score'. Baseball-Almanac. Retrieved April 28, 2012.
15. ^'Félix Hernández Perfect Game Box Score'. Retrieved April 27, 2018.
16. ^Morrison, Jim (April 5, 2010). 'The Little League World Series' Only Perfect Game'. Smithsonian.com. Retrieved September 28, 2015.

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External links[edit]

• Perfect GamesBaseball Almanac links to boxscores of both official and unofficial games
• Pitchers who retired 27 consecutive batters or more over a span of two or more gamesBaseball Prospectus article by Keith Woolner on 'hidden' perfect games (also see the follow-up)
• Rare Feats: Perfect Games MLB.com links to historical video and audio extracts

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