the last perfect game thrown in baseball by a lhp was on august 15, 2012.
the last perfect game thrown in baseball by a lhp was on august 15, 2012.
when was the last perfect game thrown in baseball by a lhp?
august 15, 2012
on may 9, 2010, major league baseball pitcher dallas braden pitched a perfect game. braden, a member of the oakland athletics, pitched the game against the tampa bay rays and retired all 27 batters. the game took place on mother's day in the united states and braden's grandmother, peggy lindsey — who raised him after his mother died of cancer when he was in high school — was in attendance. braden's battery mate during the game was landon powell, who was called up from the minor leagues 18 days before. it was the nineteenth perfect game in baseball history. braden, who was 26 at the time, was the youngest pitcher to throw a perfect game since mike witt in 1984. the game was the athletics' first no-hitter since 1990 when dave stewart did so on june 29, 1990, against the toronto blue jays.
dallas braden's perfect game
over the 150 years of major league baseball history, and over 218,400 games played, there have been 23 official perfect games by the current definition. no pitcher has ever thrown more than one. the perfect game thrown by don larsen in game 5 of the 1956 world series is the only postseason perfect game in major league history and one of only two postseason no-hitters. the first two major league perfect games, and the only two of the premodern era, were thrown in 1880, five days apart. the most recent perfect game was thrown on august 15, 2012, by félix hernández of the seattle mariners. there were three perfect games in 2012; the only other year of the modern era in which as many as two were thrown was 2010. by contrast, there have been spans of 23 and 33 consecutive seasons in which not a single perfect game was thrown. though two perfect-game bids have gone into extra innings, no extra-inning game has ever been completed to perfection.
list of major league baseball perfect games