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  1. Perfect Game USA is the world's largest baseball scouting service for high school players. It offers live events, team and player management, and live streaming of games and tournaments.

  2. As of 2024, the 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.

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    • Domingo Germán (Yankees) June 28, 2023 at A’s. After the perfect game barrage that was 2012, 10 seasons passed without one, although it wasn’t for lack of trying.
    • Félix Hernández (Mariners) Aug. 15, 2012 vs. Rays. All hail the King. Hernández was the third pitcher to throw a perfect game that season. Fittingly, it came in front of his adoring home crowd in Seattle, although there was a modest crowd of 21,889 in attendance to take in a Wednesday afternoon contest against Tampa Bay.
    • Matt Cain (Giants) June 13, 2012 vs. Astros. No-hitters and perfect games tend to have “The Play” -- the one in which the defense steals the pitcher an out on his way to history.
    • Philip Humber (White Sox) April 21, 2012 at Mariners. Of all the perfect games, this may have been the most unlikely. While Humber had been the third overall pick in the 2004 Draft by the Mets, at this point he was a 29-year-old journeyman who was nearing the end of a big league career that consisted of 371 innings and a 5.31 ERA.
  3. List of Major League Baseball perfect games. Lee Richmond, pitcher of the first perfect game in major league history. Over the 154 years of Major League Baseball history, and over 238,500 games played, [1] there have been 24 official perfect games by the current definition. [2] No pitcher has thrown more than one.

    Pitcher
    Date
    Game Details
    24
    Domingo Germán (NYY) RHP, 30 99 pitches, ...
    June 28, 2023
    23
    Félix Hernández (SEA) RHP, 26 113 ...
    August 15, 2012
    22
    Matt Cain (SF) RHP, 27 125 pitches, 14 K
    June 13, 2012
    21
    Philip Humber (CHW) RHP, 29 96 pitches, 9 ...
    April 21, 2012
  4. Jul 6, 2023 · Perfect game. From BR Bullpen. A perfect game is a complete game pitched without a runner reaching base either by hit, base-on-balls, or error. It is one of the rarest feats in baseball and a subset of no-hitters . The first major league perfect game was thrown in 1880 by Lee Richmond.

  5. A perfect game is an astounding achievement in baseball, when a pitcher retires all 27 batters faced in a single game. This article ranks the 23 best perfect games in Major League history, from John Montgomery Ward in 1880 to Félix Hernández in 2012, based on historical awesomeness and historical significance.

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