13 Responses to “Perfect Dallas – Part 1”

1. Gerry Says:
   May 9th, 2010 at 7:23 pm

   They broadcast a few games a week here in Sydney on a free-to-air all sports station. This one came on at 6 o'clock Monday morning. I wasn't up that early, but I was able to watch innings 3 through 9 and still make it to work before 9 o'clock.

   What a great game!

   I gather it was the first time Braden ever made it into the 9th inning.

   It's interesting that Catfish is on top of the list - in the late innings, they kept showing the part of the stands with Hunter's name and number on display, and talking about how he had pitched the last perfect game in that stadium (I think - maybe I got that part wrong) on almost the same date in 1968.

   Braden was throwing in the low 70s, occasionally even the high 60s.

   The hardest out was Gabe Kapler, the last out in the 6th. 12 pitches, as Kapler kept fouling them off, out of play.

2. Mike G. Says:
   May 9th, 2010 at 7:51 pm

   Went and looked up some of the pre-1952 pitchers. Charlie Robertson threw his in 1922 in his fifth career Major League game. Incredible.

3. Frank Clingenpeel Says:
   May 9th, 2010 at 8:35 pm

   Reading all of this causes me {as usual perhaps} to recall the only "perfect save" {at least as far as I am aware}. Is anyone else trying to gain more info on the Ernie Shore gem?

4. Sean Says:
   May 9th, 2010 at 8:42 pm

   Just wondering with it being Bradens 68th game and Catcher Landon Powell playing in only his 54th game if they have the least amount of games played combined between a pitcher and catcher in a no hitter/perfect game? Not sure if anyone wanted to look it up just thought I would throw it out there.

5. Mr.Dave Says:
   May 9th, 2010 at 9:27 pm

   The Shore game that you're referring to is the one that Babe Ruth was the starter for. Ruth walked the first batter he faced, the blew up on the umpire Brick Owens, who was also known for being extremely short fused. Ruth was tossed from the game, which angered him more, causing Ruth to hit Owens with a glancing punch. The starting catcher was also tossed.

   The runner on first (Ray Morgan) was promptly thrown out trying to steal second. Shore then got the next twenty six batters out. This game was actually refered to as a perfect game before being changed to a shared no-hitter (Ruth gets credit because he faced one batter).

6. Nick C. Says:
   May 10th, 2010 at 12:32 am

   Interesting fact: Duane Kuiper backed up Len Barker's perfect game (playing 2B). His brother Glen Kuiper did the play-by-play for Braden's no-hitter (with Ray Fosse) for Comcast Sports California. A first?

7. Baseball-Reference Blog » Blog Archive » Braden’s top game scores Says:
   May 10th, 2010 at 8:12 am

   [...] perfect game score of 93 is pretty low. In Raphy's list from yesterday, the only perfect game since 1952 with a lower game score is Dennis Martinez's from 1991. If I [...]

8. Spartan Bill Says:
   May 10th, 2010 at 10:13 am

   has there ever been a cycle and a Perfect game on back to back days?

9. Kahuna Tuna Says:
   May 10th, 2010 at 1:08 pm

   has there ever been a cycle and a Perfect game on back to back days?

   Even better, Addie Joss of Cleveland pitched his perfect game and Washington's Otis Clymer hit for the cycle on the same day, October 2, 1908. (Clymer's home run was one of only two that he hit in his major-league career.)

   In case you're curious, the 1908 regular-season schedule ended on October 8.

   The Giants' Ross Youngs hit for the cycle against the Boston Braves on April 29, 1922, the day before Charlie Robertson's perfect game for the White Sox against the Tigers.

   David Wells pitched his perfect game against Minnesota on May 17, 1998, and was probably still woozy from celebrating when Oakland's Mike Blowers hit for the cycle the next day against the White Sox.

10. DoubleDiamond Says:
    May 10th, 2010 at 9:41 pm

    This topic is already on page 2, so I don't know if anyone else will see this. This is my first opportunity to get on here since I learned that Tampa Bay was victimized by a perfect game for the second time in less than a year.

    My question is, what is the shortest time any franchise has gone between times being victimized by a perfect game? Is this the record? I would guess that it is because perfect games are so rare. What about being victimized in an "ordinary" no-hitter?

    Less than a week before I turned 12, I was dragged, kicking and screaming, off to overnight camp for the first (and last) time in my life. As one with a great interest in popular culture (that was the debut year of the Beatles) and baseball, I did not want to go off into the wilderness where I'd be removed from T.V., radio, and other conveniences of modern life. I knew in the 4+ years that I had been a baseball fan that a feat called a perfect game had not been accomplished in the regular season in many years. And wouldn't you know it, the very day I left for camp, June 21, 1964, the first perfecto since I had learned about baseball got pitched. Someone at camp had a radio, and I heard snatches of the news of this game the next day. Since moving to Philadelphia, I've heard a lot about that game, though.

11. Kahuna Tuna Says:
    May 11th, 2010 at 10:47 am

    ♦♦, the Rays are only the third franchise ever to be on the receiving end of a perfect game. The Dodgers went 27 up, 27 down against Larsen in 1956, Browning in 1998, and Dennis Martínez in 1991. The gap between the last two is 1,045 days, which had been the shortest gap. With 290 days between the Buehrle and Braden perfectos, that record now belongs to the Rays.

    The other team to have two perfect games pitched against it is the Twins, by Hunter in 1968 and Wells in 1998.

    Several teams have been no-hit twice in the same season. One team, the 1917 Chicago White Sox, was no-hit on consecutive days by St. Louis Browns pitchers Ernie Koob and Bob Groom on May 5 and 6, 1917. These were not consecutive games because Groom's no-hitter came in the second game of a doubleheader. (Don't feel bad for that White Sox team — they won the World Series.)

    The next shortest gap between games being no-hit is three days, by the Philadelphia A's in 1923. Sad Sam Jones of the Yankees threw a no-hitter against the A's on September 4, the A's' 123rd game of the season, and Howard Ehmke of the Yankees came along and did it again on September 7, game no. 126. Depending on how you feel about these things, you could also mention the Pittsburgh Alleghenys being no-hit by Al Atkinson of Philadelphia and Ed Morris of Columbus on May 24 and May 29, 1884, respectively. Also, Mike Warren of Oakland no-hit the White Sox on September 29, 1983, the Sox' 159th game, and then Jack Morris no-hit the Sox on the following April 7, Chicago's third game of the new season.

    A propos of nothing at all, Kansas City's teams have been no-hit six times. What makes that rather remarkable is that they've been no-hit under five different names in four different major leagues: the Unions (UA) in 1884, the Cowboys (AA) in 1888, the Packers (FL) in 1914, the Athletics in 1962, and the Royals in 1973 and 2008.

12. DoubleDiamond Says:
    May 11th, 2010 at 6:01 pm

    Seeing that the Philadelphia A's got no-hit twice by the Yankees in what appears to be the same series in 1923 reminded me that, if a nine-inning no-hitter effort that eventually was broken up (and in this case, lost) in extra innings still counted, the Dodgers would have been no-hit twice in the same series against the Expos in 1991. Two days before the perfect game by Dennis Martinez, Mark Gardner didn't allow a hit in the first nine innings of a game that was scoreless until the Dodgers won it in extra innings on at least one hit.

13. Kahuna Tuna Says:
    May 11th, 2010 at 7:50 pm

    Oops! Howard Ehmke was pitching for the Red Sox in 1923, not the Yankees. My apologies.

    I had tickets to the Dennis Martínez game, but I couldn't go because I'd left on a vacation trip. I saw highlights of the game a few days later on a TV inside the Hall of Fame.