Perfect games in mlb history baseball almanac

Clay Buchholz. Anibal Sanchez. Sep 6. Kevin Millwood. Derek Lowe. Sep 3. Hideo Nomo. Apr 4. David Cone. Jose Jimenez.

Kevin Brown. Dwight Gooden. Ramon Martinez. Scott Erickson. Apr 8. Darryl Kile. Sep 8. Sep 4. Chris Bosio. Kevin Gross. Bret Saberhagen. Dennis Martinez. Tommy Greene. Nolan Ryan. May 1. Dave Stieb. Sep 2. Dave Stewart. Jun 2. Mike Scott. Joe Cowley. Mike Witt. Jack Morris. Apr 7.

Mike Warren. Bob Forsch. Jul 4. Len Barker. Charlie Lea. May 10 2. Ken Forsch. Tom Seaver. Bert Blyleven. Dennis Eckersley. Jim Colborn. John Montefusco. Aug 9. Larry Dierker. Jul 9. Ed Halicki. Aug 24 2. Dick Bosman. Steve Busby. Phil Niekro. Aug 5. Jim Bibby. Bill Stoneman. Oct 2 1. Milt Pappas. Burt Hooton. Bob Gibson.

Rick Wise. Bill Singer. Jul 3. Dock Ellis. Jun 12 1. Bob Moose. Jim Palmer. Don Wilson. Jim Maloney. Now that you know the basics, click or tap on the interactive Tableau visualization below for a more in-depth understanding of Major League Baseball perfect games:. The ages of the pitchers who have pitched a perfect game range from 20 to 40, with the most perfect games pitched by pitchers aged 26 and 29, and throughout the mid to late twenties. See perfect game for more details. It is true that there are cases where a particular choice of defensive alignment may make scoring more likely, and there are cases where decisions made in the moment of play allow a run to score in exchange for other strategic purposes, but intentionally walking in a run is clearly in a different class of strategic maneuver.

This may also have occurred if a pitcher was instructed to deliberately hit a batter with the bases loaded, but in this case, intention is not provable. This does not exclude the possibility other National League pitchers achieved 8 or 9 strikeouts.

However, a strikeout can be recorded on a batter who reaches first base safely under a dropped third strike. If strike three is recorded on the batter but the catcher does not catch the ball to complete the putout likely due to a wild pitch or passed ball , and first base is unoccupied, the batter may advance to first. The pitcher is credited with a strikeout, but no out is recorded.

Of these, all but Chuck Finley have only once struck out 4 batters in a single inning consecutively or otherwise. Finley however did it 3 times, but the Baseball Almanac does not state how many of those were consecutive strikeouts ie, whether it was once, twice, or all 3 times. Under modern rules, the play was simply a double play , but at the time, it was considered a triple play.

See unassisted triple play for more details. Presumably, the total of 46 was taken before and this number has not been updated since.

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