perfect game
noun
: a baseball game in which a pitcher allows no hits, no runs, and no opposing batter to reach first base
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Boyd’s performance, which included taking a perfect game into the sixth, was yet another example of his consistency.
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Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Counting the postseason, Halladay made 150 more starts than Martinez in the 2000s, threw a postseason no-hitter, spun a regular-season perfect game, won two Cy Young Awards, had three more top-three finishes and was the ultimate ace for a decade.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Tatis, who last September broke up Mariners starter Bryan Woo’s perfect game with a one-out home run in the seventh inning, homered against Woo on the third pitch the right-hander threw Sunday.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
The 72-year-old coaching great, speaking in his Odessa, Texas, drawl, compared Scheffler’s dominant 2024 Masters week to a pitcher throwing a perfect game.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 5 June 2025
Counting the postseason, Halladay made 150 more starts than Martinez in the 2000s, threw a postseason no-hitter, spun a regular-season perfect game, won two Cy Young Awards, had three more top-three finishes and was the ultimate ace for a decade.
—Jayson Stark, New York Times, 2 June 2025
Tatis, who last September broke up Mariners starter Bryan Woo’s perfect game with a one-out home run in the seventh inning, homered against Woo on the third pitch the right-hander threw Sunday.
—Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 May 2025
The 72-year-old coaching great, speaking in his Odessa, Texas, drawl, compared Scheffler’s dominant 2024 Masters week to a pitcher throwing a perfect game.
—Brody Miller, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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“Perfect game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect%20game. Accessed 9 Jun. 2025.
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