Doc 3 Outs Away From a Perfect Game!

[Inspector Jihad]

i believe a perfect game has no hitter reach base, while in a no-hitter, you could get there due to an error or something.

 

[GasX]

whats the diff between a no hitter and a perfect game?
what am i missing?

also, what if the pitcher was throwing a perfect game, and the manager put in a relief pitcher in the 7th inning and that pitcher threw the rest of the perfect game.
Who gets the 'perfect game' credit? or is it shared like perfect with an assist?

A perfect game is 27 batter - 27 outs. A no-hitter is when there are no hits (errors & walks are allowed).

Any manager who relieves a guy pitching a perfect game into the 7th inning has no business managing a baseball team.

 

[Double Trouble]

Awesome, go Phils! Hopefully this will be the spark that turns them back around. Their lack of offensive production is starting to worry me

<-- long time Phillies fan

Edit: oh, and the last time two perfect games were thrown in one season was back in the 1860's. Absolutely amazing.

 

[Ika]

A perfect game is 27 batter - 27 outs. A no-hitter is when there are no hits (errors & walks are allowed).

Any manager who relieves a guy pitching a perfect game into the 7th inning has no business managing a baseball team.

barring some sort of freak accident, like when a hitter lines a ball right into the pitcher's face, the ball ricochets up and the 2nd baseman/ss catches it. that would really suck, though...

 

[ElFenix]

i believe a perfect game has no hitter reach base, while in a no-hitter, you could get there due to an error or something.

you could no hit the other side and lose to a pitcher throwing a shut out. happened a couple years ago when the angels no hit the dodgers but lost. the dodgers scored on an error, steal, error, and sac.

by the rules of record keeping it does not count as a no hitter because the home team didn't have to bat in the bottom of the 9th. i suppose a no hitter requires 27 outs to be recorded. a home team could lose a no hitter but a road team can't.

http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/25435055/

whats the diff between a no hitter and a perfect game?
what am i missing?

also, what if the pitcher was throwing a perfect game, and the manager put in a relief pitcher in the 7th inning and that pitcher threw the rest of the perfect game.
Who gets the 'perfect game' credit? or is it shared like perfect with an assist?

how about the opposite?

babe ruth got tossed for swinging at the umpire after walking the first batter of a game. ernie shore came in in relief, the baserunner was caught stealing almost immediately, and shore retired the next 26 batters in a row. perfect game in relief (but, again due to 27 outs needing to be recorded, it's officially a shared no-hitter).

 

[actuarial]

Congrats to Doc. Up here in TO we miss him greatly. The last few years I've gone out of my way to watch Doc's starts. He is truly amazing!

 

[Perknose]

The wildest non-perfect game EVER was thrown by Harvey Haddix. In 1959, he pitched a "perfect game" for 12 full innings, retiring 36 straight batters, only to lose his perfect game on an error in the 13th.

And then, despite ending up with a 12 and 2/3 inning one hitter, he lost the damn game!

 

[speg]

A perfect game is 27 batter - 27 outs.

Not necessarily. As you could have hits/walks/errors and then outs caught stealing, pick offs, double plays, etc. Gotta specify no walks, hits, errors for the perfect game.

 

[Perknose]

Congrats to Doc. Up here in TO we miss him greatly. The last few years I've gone out of my way to watch Doc's starts. He is truly amazing!

I feel your pain, I really do. When we sucked, we lost two GREAT players, Scott Rolen and Curt Schilling, neither of whom could stand that our management then spent like a small market team even though we were a big market team.

And . . . all we got in return in BOTH trades was a bag of slightly used game balls and a collection of stiffs.

It . . . was . . . frustrating!