23 major league pitchers have thrown a perfect game.
23 major league pitchers have thrown a perfect game.
how many major league pitchers have thrown a perfect game?
23
during baseball's modern era, 21 pitchers have thrown perfect games. most were accomplished major leaguers. seven have been inducted into the baseball hall of fame: cy young, addie joss, jim bunning, sandy koufax, catfish hunter, roy halladay, and randy johnson. david cone won the cy young once and was named to five all-star teams. félix hernández is likewise a one-time cy young winner, as well as a six-time all-star. four other perfect-game throwers, dennis martínez, kenny rogers, david wells and mark buehrle, each won over 200 major league games. matt cain, though he ended with a 104–118 record, was a three-time all-star, played a pivotal role on two world series–winning teams, and twice finished top ten in cy young voting. for a few, the perfect game was the highlight of an otherwise unremarkable career. mike witt and tom browning were solid major league pitchers; browning was a one-time all-star with a career record of 123–90, while witt was a two-time all-star, going 117–116. larsen, charlie robertson, and len barker were journeyman pitchers—each finished his major-league career with a losing record; barker made one all-star team, larsen and robertson none. (robertson, it should be noted, played his entire career before the establishment of the mlb all-star game.) dallas braden retired with a 26–36 record after five seasons due to a shoulder injury. philip humber's perfect game was the only complete game he ever recorded, and his major league career, in which he went 16–23, ended the year after he threw it.
list of major league baseball perfect games
the detroit tigers are a major league baseball franchise based in detroit, michigan. they play in the american league central division. pitchers for the tigers have thrown seven no-hitters in franchise history. a no-hitter is officially recognized by major league baseball only "when a pitcher (or pitchers) allows no hits during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings. in a no-hit game, a batter may reach base via a walk, an error, a hit by pitch, a passed ball or wild pitch on strike three, or catcher's interference." no-hitters of less than nine complete innings were previously recognized by the league as official; however, several rule alterations in 1991 changed the rule to its current form. a no-hitter is common enough that only one team in major league baseball has never had a pitcher accomplish the feat. a perfect game, a special subcategory of no-hitter, has yet to be thrown in tigers history. as defined by major league baseball, "in a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game." this feat came closest on june 2, 2010 when armando galarraga lost his perfect game bid against the cleveland indians with two outs in the ninth due to the incorrect call made by a first base umpire jim joyce. but there are two other times when the tigers perfect game bids were lost with two outs in the ninth, one in 1932 and the other in 1983. the tigers lead all franchises with three perfect game bids lost with two outs in the ninth.
list of detroit tigers no-hitters