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Baseball

Princess Turandot

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1. Playing catch with Yogi once more..

Reply to stopbush (Original post)

Thu Jan 2, 2020, 01:09 AM

Jan 2020

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For non-baseball people, a perfect game in Major League Baseball is "a game in which a pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and no opposing batter reaches base. To achieve a perfect game, a team must not allow an opposing player to reach base by any means, including hits, walks, hit batsmen, or fielding errors; in short, "27 up, 27 down" (for a nine-inning game)."

In more than 219,000 games recorded since 1876, only 23 perfect games have ever been pitched.

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R.I.P. Don Larsen, Yankee Pitcher [View all] stopbush Jan 2020 OP

Playing catch with Yogi once more.. Princess Turandot Jan 2020 #1

I was there Girl powers Jan 2020 #2

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Still the only one to accomplish a Perfect Game in a WS. Remarkable. kairos12 Jan 2020 #4