perfect game

noun

1. a baseball game in which the same player pitches throughout the full game without allowing any player of the opposing team to reach first base by a base hit, base on balls, error, or any other means. Compare no-hitter.
2. a game in bowling of 12 consecutive strikes.

perfect game

noun

1. baseball a game in which no batter on the opposing team reaches first base
2. tenpin bowling a game in which a bowler scores twelve consecutive strikes

Word History and Origins

Origin of perfect game¹

First recorded in 1945–50

Example Sentences

But in Game 5, the right-hander did what no other pitcher has ever done — retire all 27 batters, seven by strikeout, for baseball’s only World Series perfect game.

From Los Angeles Times

This Series will always be remembered for Game 5, Yankee pitcher Don Larsen’s perfect game.

From Los Angeles Times

I would have picked his stunningly poetic description of the final inning of the Sandy Koufax perfect game: “There’s 29,000 people in the ballpark and a million butterflies.”

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From Robinson’s steal of home to Larsen’s perfect game to Reggie Jackson’s three homers, the next two weeks will summon the ghosts of greatness past.

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And, oh, by the way, in that game he also became the first pitcher in Japan to pitch a perfect game in 28 years, and he tossed eight more perfect innings in his next start.

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