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Every Perfect Game in Major League Baseball History | Baseball Almanac

Words alone cannot describe pitching's top "club" and most desired goal — the masterpiece of any career, the pinnacle of the pitching aspect and one of the most difficult feats to achieve in the entire game of baseball is the perfect game.

What is a perfect game in baseball? Author Paul Dickson in The New Baseball Dictionary (1999) describes it best with, "A no-hitter in which no opposing player reaches first base, either by a base hit, base on balls, hit batter, or fielding error; i.e., the pitcher or pitchers retire all twenty-seven opposing batters in order." Research by Baseball Almanac.

"The sun don't shine on the same dog's ass all the time." - Hunter, Catfish. Perfect Game Club Pitcher / Hall of Fame Pitcher. Answer to reporter asking why he was not able to pitch another perfect game. When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes. Hyperion Publishing. Kaplan, Dave. Author. 22 May 2002. Page 18.

American League Perfect Games Official American League Perfect Games
AL	MLB	Pitcher	Age	Date | Box	Match-Up					Att.	Time
1.	3.	Cy Young	37.038	05-05-1904	BOS	3	vs	PHI	0	10,267	1:25
2.	4.	Addie Joss	28.174	10-02-1908	CLE	1	vs	CHI	0	10,598	1:29
3.	5.	Charlie Robertson	26.089	04-30-1922	CHI	2	at	DET	0	25,000	1:55
4.	6.	Don Larsen	26.089	10-08-1956	NY	2	vs	BRO	0	64,519	2:06
5.	9.	Catfish Hunter	22.031	05-08-1968	OAK	4	vs	MIN	0	6,298	2:28
6.	10.	Len Barker	25.312	05-15-1981	CLE	3	vs	TOR	0	7,290	2:09
7.	11.	Mike Witt	24.073	09-30-1984	CAL	1	at	TEX	0	8,375	1:49
8.	14.	Kenny Rogers	29.260	07-28-1994	TEX	4	vs	CAL	0	45,581	2:08
9.	15.	David Wells	34.262	05-17-1998	NY	4	vs	MIN	0	49,820	2:40
10.	16.	David Cone	36.197	07-18-1999	NY	6	vs	MON	0	41,930	2:16
11.	18.	Mark Buehrle	30.122	07-23-2009	CHI	5	vs	TBR	0	28,036	2:03
12.	19.	Dallas Braden	26.269	05-09-2010	OAK	4	vs	TBR	0	12,228	2:07
13.	21.	Philip Humber	29.122	04-21-2012	CHI	4	at	SEA	0	22,472	2:17
14.	23.	Felix Hernandez	26.130	08-15-2012	SEA	1	vs	TBR	0	21,889	2:22
15.	24.	Domingo Germán	30.328	06-28-2023	NY	11	at	OAK	0	12,479	2:30
AL	MLB	Pitcher	Age	Date | Box	Match-Up					Att.	Time
National League Perfect Games Official National League Perfect Games
NL	MLB	Pitcher	Age	Date | Box	Match-Up					Att.	Time
1.	1.	Lee Richmond	23.039	06-12-1880	WOR	1	vs	CLE	0	uk	1:26
2.	2.	John Ward	20.107	06-17-1880	PRO	5	vs	BUF	0	uk	uk
3.	7.	Jim Bunning	32.242	06-21-1964	PHI	6	at	NY	0	32,026	2:19
4.	8.	Sandy Koufax	29.253	09-09-1965	LA	1	vs	CHI	0	29,139	1:43
5.	12.	Tom Browning	28.142	09-16-1988	CIN	1	vs	LA	0	16,591	1:51
6.	13.	Dennis Martinez	37.075	07-28-1991	MON	2	at	LA	0	45,560	2:14
7.	17.	Randy Johnson	40.251	05-18-2004	ARI	2	at	ATL	0	23,381	2:13
8.	20.	Roy Halladay	33.015	05-29-2010	PHI	1	at	FLO	0	25,086	2:13
9.	22.	Matt Cain	27.256	06-13-2012	SF	10	vs	HOU	0	42,298	2:36
NL	MLB	Pitcher	Age	Date | Box	Match-Up					Att.	Time
MLB Perfect Games | Research by Baseball Almanac

Un-Official Perfect Games | Do Not Meet MLB Criteria Photo of Out #27 / The Blown Call (Source: Fox Sports) Blown Call
Name	Date | Box	Match Up					Notes
Armando Galarraga	06-02-2010	DET	3	vs	CLE	0	Jim Joyce Blown Call
Name	Date | Box	Match Up					Notes
Un-Official Perfect Games | Do Not Meet MLB Criteria Broken Up In Extra Innings
Name	Date | Box	Match Up					Notes
Harvey Haddix	05-26-1959	PIT	0	at	MIL	1	E, BB & H In 13th
Pedro Martinez	06-03-1995	MON	1	at	SD	0	H In 10th
Name	Date | Box	Match Up					Notes
Un-Official Perfect Games | Do Not Meet MLB Criteria Less Than Nine Innings
Name	Date | Box	Match Up					Notes
Rube Vickers	10-05-1907	PHI	4	at	WAS	0	5 Innings
Dean Chance	08-06-1967	MIN	2	vs	BOS	0	5 Innings
Name	Date | Box	Match Up					Notes
Un-Official Perfect Games | Do Not Meet MLB Criteria Less Than Nine Innings
Name	Date | Box	Match Up					Notes
Ed Karger	08-11-1907	StL	4	vs	BOS	0	7 Innings
David Palmer	04-21-1984	MON	4	at	StL	0	5 Innings
Name	Date | Box	Match Up					Notes
Un-Official Perfect Games | Research by Baseball Almanac

Did you know that Charlie Robertson was the first pitcher to throw a perfect game while pitching on the road? Too easy you say? How about KNOWN pitch counts from perfect games in descending order as researched by Baseball Almanac:

Perfect Game Pitch Counts
Pitcher	#
Matt Cain	125
David Wells	120
Randy Johnson	117
Mark Buehrle	116
Roy Halladay	115
Felix Hernandez	113
Sandy Koufax	113
Dallas Braden	109
Catfish Hunter	107
Len Barker	103
Tom Browning	102
Domingo Germán	99
Kenny Rogers	98
Don Larsen	97
Philip Humber	96
Dennis Martinez	95
Mike Witt	94
Jim Bunning	90
Charlie Robertson	90
David Cone	88
Addie Joss	74

Don Larsen's gem during the 1956 World Series was the first and only perfect game to occur during the postseason / World Series AND the entire box score, as well as quotes, video, historical data, and more research, is on Baseball Almanac.

Harvey Haddix pitched perfectly for nine-plus innings only to lose his perfect game during the late innings. For years the game was considered a perfect game until Major League Baseball, in 1991, redefined the rule in respect to what defines a no-hitter and perfect game. Four years after the rule change, Pedro Martinez had his "perfect game" lost in the extra-innings as well.

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