Perfect Game
A Perfect Game called in baseball and softball games a pitcher who can reach first base not a single opponent.
Requirements
In baseball and softball, it is the goal of every team to bring in the attack by base hits players on the bases to achieve runs (points) through finally draining all the bases. The defense tries to prevent this by making the opponent out.
If it is possible a Pitcher or a combination of pitchers over the full distance of 9 or 7 innings, that no opposing player reaches first base, referred to this power as a Perfect Game.
The pitcher must therefore leave no Basehit, no walk and no hit by pitch. In addition, the defense may also undermine no error by which a batter reaches first base. A non -caught foul ball is counted as error affected a Perfect Game not, as this no player gets on base, but only the at-bat of a batsman is extended.
Past Perfect Games
MLB
In Major League Baseball there were in the American League (AL ) and 9 in the National League ( NL) since its inception only 23 Perfect Games, 14
On 2 June 2010 the pitcher Armando Galarraga was destroyed by a referee wrong decision at the 27th and last batter actually a Perfect Game; it will appear in the statistics as a one-hit shutout. The 27th batsman was declared at first base safe from the slow motion but it was clear that the right decision would have been out gelautet. The umpire immediately admitted after the game that it was a wrong decision and it had cost Galarraga a Perfect Game (→ Galarragas almost perfect game ).
Baseball - Bundesliga
In the baseball league there has been only a Perfect Game
On June 8, 2013 prevented the " mercy rule" ( Inning (baseball) ) a real " perfect game " for Nick Renault in the game of Solingen Alligators in Solingen against the Berlin Sluggers
Japan
In Japanese baseball, there have been 15 Perfect Games, the last on May 18, 1994 by Hiromi Makihara of the Yomiuri Giants in a six -run victory over Hiroshima Carp in the Fukuoka Dome. In the Nippon Series 2007 Chunichi Dragons to a Perfect Game against the Hokkaido Nippon Ham succeeded Fighters, but in a joint effort of the starter Daisuke Yamai (1st - 8th inning ) and the relief pitcher Hitoki Iwase ( 9th inning ).