Almost Perfect Perfect Games

[utterchaos jr.]

That would get me mad...

Blowing no-hitter and a perfect game
that sucks for the guy who pitched to Phelps
NO HITTER -- PERFECT GAME -- SHUTOUT

[oaklandman666]

A friend and I were talking about "semi-perfect games"...that is, no-hitters where the pitcher faced the minimum 27 batters. Does anyone know how many times this has happened, if any?

Buehrle's no-hitter earlier this year.

[PWNdroia]

This may have already been mentioned, but this year Curt Schilling went 8 and 2/3 innings without giving up a hit against the A's, until someone (I think Stewart) got a base hit. Almost a no-hitter.

[Gregory Pratt]

Right...the Mets did it earlier this season during their one-hit spree versus the Marlins...but I have yet to hear about a case where a no-hitter was thrown AND the pitcher faced the minimum number of batters.

Thanks for your input.

Buehrle.

Goddamn character limit.

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

Don Larson pitched a perfect game in the Woild Serious. Technically, he did. Dale Mitchell was called out in the 9th, with two outs, by Jocko Conlin.
In my opinion, that pitch [high and inside] gave way to the "subjective strike zone" used to this day by umpires throughout baseball.
A strike should be called a strike and a ball should be called a ball. Porkers from coast to coast demonstrate their incompetence and/or dishonesty every night by ignoring this.
Gamblers tout umpires when figuring the over/under... and Pud Selig sits and watches.
Disgraceful.

[anjo25]

Don Larson pitched a perfect game in the Woild Serious. Technically, he did. Dale Mitchell was called out in the 9th, with two outs, by Jocko Conlin.

It was Babe Pinelli-

Mickey Mantle later admitted that the pitch looked high from his center-field angle. Dodgers outfielder Duke Snider said, "I think he (Pinelli) wanted to go out with a no-hitter," adding, "But there were 26 outs before that and he got them all. You can't take anything away from him."

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

... corrected. [actually, I'm sitting] It was, indeed, Babe Pinelli. I respectfully disagree with Duke Snider's opinion.

[JJinIraq]

This goes way back in my youth but didn't Houston's Dave Giusti have a 27 up, 27 down game against the San Francisco Giants?

[ipitch]

This goes way back in my youth but didn't Houston's Dave Giusti have a 27 up, 27 down game against the San Francisco Giants?

No, he faced 28 batters and gave up 1 hit.
http://www.baseball-reference.com/bo...96608130.shtml

[Chuck The Mets Fan!]

6/17/03 Jae Sao, David Weathers, Armando Benitez (Mets)
Jae Sao and two relievers combined on a one-hitter Tuesday as the New York Mets posted a 5-0 triumph over the Florida Marlins. Sao (5-2) did not allow a hit until the fifth inning when Juan Encarnacion singled to left. Following his single, Encarnacion tried to steal second. He appeared to get a hand on the bag before Roberto Alomar applied the tag, but second base umpire Jim Joyce called him out. Sao, who left after 6 2/3 innings with a broken nail on his right index finger, struck out four and did not walk a batter. Weathers pitched 1 1/3 innings before Benitez pitched a perfect ninth.

FIRST POST

Typical Mets.

If I am not mistaken, The Seo/Weathers/Benitez game was the last of three straight one-hit games that the Mets were involved in. Steve Tracshel pitched a one-hitter against the Angels in the first one-hit game, Dontrell Willis one-hit the Mets in the first game of the series, and Seo and the gang pitched to the minimum for the first and only time in Mets history.

Chuck

[SHOELESSJOE3]

Don Larson pitched a perfect game in the Woild Serious. Technically, he did. Dale Mitchell was called out in the 9th, with two outs, by Jocko Conlin.
In my opinion, that pitch [high and inside] gave way to the "subjective strike zone" used to this day by umpires throughout baseball.
A strike should be called a strike and a ball should be called a ball. Porkers from coast to coast demonstrate their incompetence and/or dishonesty every night by ignoring this.
Gamblers tout umpires when figuring the over/under... and Pud Selig sits and watches.
Disgraceful.

Lets not hinge the game on one call. We all have seen that last pitch from the same camera angle, from behind the batter, no way to really tell if it was high. Even if it was a bit high, never heard any complaints from the the other team after the game. It could have been a little high but certainly not a blatant bad call. A complaint by the batter Mitchell but......whats new, a hitter complaining about a call and he's more likely to complain since he's the last out of the perfect game.The fact that the batter checked his swing tells us it wasn't that far out of the zone.

Come on now, are you suggesting the umps took a pay off on this game.