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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Tatis, who last September broke up Mariners starter Bryan Woo’s perfect game with a one-out home run in the seventh inning, homered against Woo on the third pitch the right-hander threw Sunday.
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
The 72-year-old coaching great, speaking in his Odessa, Texas, drawl, compared Scheffler’s dominant 2024 Masters week to a pitcher throwing a perfect game.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 15 May 2025
The suspension is retroactive to April 27, the day after Young tossed his bat in a Triple-A game while playing for Durham.
2010 — Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history, a dazzling performance for the Oakland Athletics in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
San Francisco hitters made harder contact in the fifth, but everything found a glove as anticipation began to build about a potential perfect game.
—Dan Hayes, New York Times, 10 May 2025
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Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
The 72-year-old coaching great, speaking in his Odessa, Texas, drawl, compared Scheffler’s dominant 2024 Masters week to a pitcher throwing a perfect game.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 15 May 2025
The suspension is retroactive to April 27, the day after Young tossed his bat in a Triple-A game while playing for Durham.
2010 — Dallas Braden pitched the 19th perfect game in major league history, a dazzling performance for the Oakland Athletics in a 4-0 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays.
—Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2025
San Francisco hitters made harder contact in the fifth, but everything found a glove as anticipation began to build about a potential perfect game.
—Dan Hayes, New York Times, 10 May 2025
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“Perfect game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect%20game. Accessed 8 Jun. 2025.
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