Perfect Game Trivia Questions

Strikeouts aren't required. A perfect game means no batter reaches base—via hit, walk, or error—but outs can be groundouts, flyouts, or strikeouts.

Galarraga retired 26 straight batters, but umpire Jim Joyce missed the final out at first base. MLB later admitted the error but did not change the official record.

By definition, a perfect game is a complete game where no opposing player reaches base, meaning no runs score. The pitcher's team must win, so a losing perfect game is impossible.

In 2012, Philip Humber (White Sox), Matt Cain (Giants), and Félix Hernández (Mariners) each threw a perfect game. No other MLB season has had more than two.

Catfish Hunter threw a perfect game in the regular season (1968), not in the World Series. The only World Series perfect game was thrown by Don Larsen in 1956.

The phrase first appeared in 1880, but Major League Baseball retroactively recognized perfect games only starting in 1991, after years of debate.

Domingo Germán threw the most recent perfect game in June 2023 and did not homer; no pitcher has ever hit a home run in a perfect game.

In baseball, a perfect game requires the pitcher to face the minimum 27 batters without any reaching base. A walk-off home run by the pitcher's team in the bottom of the ninth or later would score the winning run and end the game immediately, preserving the perfect game if the score was 0–0. Thus, it is possible, though it has never happened.