perfect game

noun

: a baseball game in which a pitcher allows no hits, no runs, and no opposing batter to reach first base

Examples of perfect game in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Young flirted harder with a perfect game than any pitcher has this season, stunning a crowd of 33,654 that included many family and friends from his hometown of Lumberton, Texas. —Chandler Rome, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025

Consider this, there have been more perfect games in the majors over the past 15 years than brand new private clubs in New Jersey built from the ground up. —Erik Matuszewski, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025

Manager Dave Roberts has heretofore been very careful with the left-hander, once pulling Kershaw out of an early-season perfect game after seven innings. —Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 3 July 2025

The homer, which broke up Taillon’s perfect game, cut through the wind at 102.5 mph and traveled 399 feet. —Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 26 May 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

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