Almost Perfect Perfect Games

[philliesfiend55]

Milt Pappas is adamant that Ball Four On Stahl was a blown call by the ump and actually should have been Strike Three. -- Pappas will go to his grave still blaming that umpire for costing him a perfect game.!

[Captain Cold Nose]

If we're including Galarraga, we have to include Anibal Sanchez as well. He almost had his 2nd career no-hitter this year against the Twins. He went 8 1/3 innings before allowing a single to Joe Maurer.

Nobody blew a call in Sanchez's game against Minnesota. It's not just a matter of getting close.

[NC_Oriole]

Can we technically include Armando Galarraga since he did throw a perfect game. Hell, he even retired 28 straight just for fun.

If we're including Galarraga, we have to include Anibal Sanchez as well. He almost had his 2nd career no-hitter this year against the Twins. He went 8 1/3 innings before allowing a single to Joe Maurer.

[dadair6]

Can we technically include Armando Galarraga since he did throw a perfect game. Hell, he even retired 28 straight just for fun.

[dominik]

matt harvey against the White sox. I was in the Stadium.

[Bothrops Atrox]

Yu Darvish did it this year.

And Shelby Miller

[walter sobchak]

Yu Darvish did it this year.

[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.

[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

[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/boxes/SFN/SFN196608130.shtml

[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?

[Ralph Zig Tyko]

I stand...

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

[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]

October 8, 1956

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.

[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.