What is the total number of perfect baseball games pitched?

Answer 1

20 Official Perfect Games; 18 in the Modern Era, 2 in the 19th Century

19th Century

Lee Richmond (WOR)

June 12, 1880

John Montgomery Ward (PROV)

June 17, 1880

Modern Era

Cy Young (BOS)

37 RHP, 8 K, May 5, 1904

Addie Joss (CLE)

74 pitches, 3 K, October 2, 1908

Charlie Robertson (CHW)

90 pitches, 6 K, April 30, 1922

Don Larson (NYY)

97 pitches, 7 K, October 8, 1956

(Game 5 of the World Series)

Jim Bunning (PHI)

90 pitches, 10 K, June 21, 1964

Sandy Koufax (LAD)

113 pitches, 14 K, September 9, 1965

Catfish Hunter (OAK)

107 pitches, 11 K, May 8, 1968

Len Barker (CLE)

103 pitches, 11 K, May 15, 1981

Mike Witt (CAL)

94 pitches, 10 K, September 30, 1984

Tom Browning (CIN)

102 pitches, 7K, September 16, 1988

Dennis Martinez (MON)

95 pitches, 5 K, July 28, 1991

Kenny Rogers (TEX)

98 pitches, 8 K, July 28, 1994

David Wells (NYY)

120 pitches, 11 K, May 17, 1998

David Cone (NYY)

88 pitches, 10 K, July 18, 1999

Randy Johnson (ARI)

117 pitches, 13 K, May 18, 2004

Mark Buehrele (CHW)

116 pitches, 6 K, July 23, 2009

Dallas Braden (OAK)

109 pitches, 6 K, May 9, 2010

Roy Halladay (PHI)

115 pitches, 11 K, May 29, 2010

Unofficial Perfect Game

Armando Galarraga (DET)

Bad call, June 2, 2010

under review; unlikely to be reversed

Answer 2

Only one perfect game has been thrown in the postseason, done by Don Larsen in 1956 postseason against the Brooklyn Dodgers.

There have been only two no-hitters tossed on playoff history, with one of them being Don Larsen's perfect game. The other was by Roy Halladay (the 2010 postseason against the Cincinnati Reds).

Answer 3

In the history of Major League Baseball, there have been only 23 perfect games in which a pitcher faced a minimum of 27 batters and got them all out. The last one was on August 15, 2012, when Seattle Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez blanked the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0 in Seattle.

Answer 4

Through the 2008 season, 17 MLB pitchers have thrown perfect games. No pitcher has thrown more than one.

Answer 5

One. Don Larsen of the New York Yankees pitched the only perfect game in the World Series. It was on October 8, 1956 in game 5 versus the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Answer 6

As of now (April 23, 2012) there have been 21 perfect games thrown. Most recently was April 21, 2012 by Philip Humber of the Chicago White Sox against the Seattle Mariners.

Answer 7

there have only ever been 18 perfect games in Baseball history.

Answer 8

1 Don Larsen 1956