the last perfect game thrown in baseball by a rhp was on may 9, 2010.
the last perfect game thrown in baseball by a rhp was on may 9, 2010.
when was the last perfect game thrown in baseball by a rhp?
may 9, 2010
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
on may 17, 1998, wells pitched the 15th perfect game in baseball history, when he blanked the minnesota twins, 4–0. wells attended the same san diego high school, point loma high school, as don larsen, whose perfect game for the yankees in the 1956 world series was the only perfect game or no-hitter ever thrown in postseason play until 2010, and was until then the only perfect game thrown by a yankee. david cone would add a third yankee perfect game in 1999. wells claimed that he threw the perfect game while being hung over. comedian jimmy fallon, who had partied with wells the night before the game, has backed up this claim.
david wells