perfect game
noun
: a baseball game in which a pitcher allows no hits, no runs, and no opposing batter to reach first base
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Nine outs from becoming the first team in major-league history to have four perfect games thrown against them, the Rays ended the drama when Chandler Simpson opened the seventh with a hard single up the middle on a 1-2 pitch.
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Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Correa’s return to Houston concluded with a 12-0 bludgeoning by the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, finishing a six-game homestand in which the Astros were outscored 44-17 and, on Friday, came within four outs of having a perfect game thrown against them.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
The Marlins righty’s bid for history ended when Story lined a single to right for the game’s first hit, denying Alcantara the chance to become the first pitcher to ever throw a perfect game at Fenway Park, and the 15th to throw a no-hitter in the ballpark’s century-plus history.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 15 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
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Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025
Correa’s return to Houston concluded with a 12-0 bludgeoning by the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday, finishing a six-game homestand in which the Astros were outscored 44-17 and, on Friday, came within four outs of having a perfect game thrown against them.
—Chandler Rome, New York Times, 18 Aug. 2025
The Marlins righty’s bid for history ended when Story lined a single to right for the game’s first hit, denying Alcantara the chance to become the first pitcher to ever throw a perfect game at Fenway Park, and the 15th to throw a no-hitter in the ballpark’s century-plus history.
—Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 15 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
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“Perfect game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect%20game. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.
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