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Mike asked in SportsBaseball · 9 years ago

Who are the 21 pitchers to throw a perfect game?

I know Phil Humber of the White Sox just did it, so who are the other 20.

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  • Anonymous
    9 years ago
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    Lee Richmond June 12, 1880 Worcester Ruby Legs Cleveland Blues 1 - 0 First perfect game in Major League history

    Monte Ward June 17, 1880 Providence Grays Buffalo Bisons 5 - 0

    Cy Young May 5, 1904 Boston Pilgrims Philadelphia Athletics 3 - 0

    Addie Joss October 2, 1908 Cleveland Naps Chicago White Sox 1 - 0

    Charlie Robertson April 30, 1922 Chicago White Sox Detroit Tigers 2 - 0 Robertson's third start of his Major League career

    Don Larsen October 8, 1956 New York Yankees Brooklyn Dodgers 2 - 0 Game Five of the 1956 World Series

    Jim Bunning June 21, 1964 (first game) Philadelphia Phillies New York Mets 6 - 0 First perfect game in NL in 20th century

    Sandy Koufax September 9, 1965 Los Angeles Dodgers Chicago Cubs 1 - 0 Cubs' picher Bob Hendley pitches 1-hitter in loss to Koufax

    Catfish Hunter May 8, 1968 Oakland Athletics Minnesota Twins 4 - 0 Hunter drives in three runs with three hits

    Len Barker May 15, 1981 Cleveland Indians Toronto Blue Jays 3 - 0 First perfect game to have designated hitters in teams' lineups

    Mike Witt September 30, 1984 California Angels Texas Rangers 1 - 0 Pitched on final day of 1984 regular season

    Tom Browning September 16, 1988 Cincinnati Reds Los Angeles Dodgers 1 - 0

    Dennis Martinez July 28, 1991 Montreal Expos Los Angeles Dodgers 2 - 0 Martinez is first non-USA-born pitcher to pitch perfect game. Dodger Stadium become first ballpark to host two perfect games.

    Kenny Rogers July 28, 1994 Texas Rangers California Angels 4 - 0 Rangers and Angels become first pair of Major League teams to have perfect games pitched for them against each other

    David Wells May 17, 1998 New York Yankees Minnesota Twins 4 - 0

    David Cone July 18, 1999 New York Yankees Montreal Expos 6 - 0 First perfect game in regular season interleague play

    Randy Johnson May 18, 2004 Arizona Diamondbacks Atlanta Braves 2 - 0 40-year-old Johnson becomes oldest pitcher to pitch perfect game

    Mark Buehrle July 23, 2009 Chicago White Sox Tampa Bay Rays 5 - 0 Sox outfielder Dewayne Wise makes catch reaching over the wall in 9th inning to save Buehrle's gem

    Dallas Braden May 9, 2010 Oakland Athletics Tampa Bay Rays 4 - 0

    Roy Halladay May 29, 2010 Philadelphia Phillies Florida Marlins 1 - 0 Halladay joins Braden as the first pair to pitch perfect games in the same season since Richmond and Ward 130 years earlier

    Philip Humber April 21, 2012 Chicago White Sox Seattle Mariners 4 - 0

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    Humber became the 4th %. in the country out of Rice college by utilising the Mets in the 2004 MLB draft. he had injury subject concerns in the minors and has purely shown flashes of what became promised to be an marvelous profession. the suited game became one among those flashes, the way he pitched for the Mets in 2007 and the Astros this 3 hundred and sixty 5 days, regrettably became the different component of him. BQ: sure, it is going to likely be.

  • 9 years ago

    Interesting that of the 21 perfect games thrown, the first 9 spanned 88years (1880 -1968) and the last 12 has spanned only 31 years (1981-2012).

  • ?
    Lv 7
    9 years ago

    It's on the Wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_game

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  • 9 years ago

    I don't know all of them, but DALLAS BRADEN DID IT!! I WAS THERE!!!!!!!!

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