The perfect game that wasn't
Date: June 10th 2010
The perfect game that wasn't
Pitching a perfect game in baseball is not the rarest accomplishment in sports. It’s not even the rarest accomplishment in baseball. There have been 19 perfect games thrown in Major League Baseball (MLB) since 1900, but only 15 unassisted triple plays and only 15 times has one guy hit four homeruns in a game.And only one Disco Demolition Night.
Still, there’s something extra special about a perfect game. Unassisted triple plays and homeruns are flash-in-the-pan individual feats – boom bam it’s a done deal – whereas pitching a perfect game requires two hours of extended effort and concentration by the pitcher, backed up by flawless defense from his teammates, all done in the pressure cooker of historical momentousness.
Notice that I said 19 perfect games. Unfortunately, that’s not the number in official MLB statistics. They only show 18 because on June 2 pitcher Armando Galarraga and the Detroit Tigers did everything necessary to accomplish perfect game number 19 but the first base umpire, Jim Joyce, blew the call on what should have been the last out, leaving Galarraga a blemish short of perfection...
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