Created Thu 22nd May 9:26pm PDT by 
Erik
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Current forecast: 20% chance 
Combining all predictions, the current forecast is that this is 20% likely to happen (unchanged in last 1 day)
Only 17 pitchers have tossed a perfect game in Major League history. The last being Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks in May of '04. Johnson, who was 40 at the time, also holds the distinction of being the oldest to accomplish this rarity of pitching feats.
Perhaps the most famous perfect game was pitched by Don Larsen of the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1956 World Series. It remains the only perfect game and only no-hitter in World Series history.
What is a perfect game in baseball? Author Paul Dickson in The New Baseball Dictionary (1999) describes it best with, "A no-hitter in which no opposing player reaches first base, either by a base hit, base on balls, hit batter, or fielding error; i.e., the pitcher retires all twenty-seven opposing batters in order."
Perhaps the most famous perfect game was pitched by Don Larsen of the New York Yankees against the Brooklyn Dodgers during the 1956 World Series. It remains the only perfect game and only no-hitter in World Series history.
What is a perfect game in baseball? Author Paul Dickson in The New Baseball Dictionary (1999) describes it best with, "A no-hitter in which no opposing player reaches first base, either by a base hit, base on balls, hit batter, or fielding error; i.e., the pitcher retires all twenty-seven opposing batters in order."
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