What is the equivalent achievement for batters to a pitcher throwing a perfect game?
Hitting for the cycle? A home run every at bat? Is there even one?
4 homer game. There’s only been 18.
23 perfect games. 25 if you think MLB is a bunch of assholes.
A natural cycle(1B,2B,3B,HR in order) has been done 15 times and for fielders, an unassisted triple play has been done 15 times with two of those game-ending.
I would venture a perfect-batting game would be one where the batter gets a hit every single at-bat. Although that may be setting the bar low.
Likely, there’s too many to count. Unless you confine it to a minimum number of ABs in a game.
ETA:
9 inning game
97 went 6-6
2 went 7-7
No one went 8-8
Say what…?
Armando Galarraga threw a perfect game that was ruined by an admitted bad call by the umpire. If MLB can change rules and then go back decades to take away no-hitters that don’t qualify under the new rules, they could have fixed a mistake by their official.
Harvey Haddix pitched 12 perfect innings before giving up hits in the 13th. Same deal with going back in the past with new rules.
I think I know what you’re referring to here, but can you provide a deeper explanation?
I did. Harvey Haddix. I’m sure there were other extra inning games that the pitcher went 9 hitless and gave up a hit in extra innings.
There were some games that were never a full 9 that I can see demoting.
Ahh okay, gotcha. Thanks.
So you are saying that the MLB ruling on the Harvey Haddix game was changed years after it was played? I don’t believe that it was ever ruled a no-hitter, and it still is not recognized as such. Am I wrong?
In 1991, Major League Baseball changed the definition of a no-hitter to “a game in which a pitcher or pitchers complete a game of nine innings or more without allowing a hit.” This retroactively disqualified Haddix, which some had considered to have thrown a perfect game because he retired the first 27 batters in order. Despite his having thrown more perfect innings than anyone in a single game, Haddix’s game was taken off the lists of perfect games and no-hitters. Haddix’s response was "It’s O.K. I know what I did.
Great, thanks for sharing. I did not know that fact. Ignorance fought.
No problems. There were others who went the regulation nine who got shafted but his was by far the most egregious.
Yeah, I was watching the Galarraga game as it happened. I couldn’t believe the safe call, and then I couldn’t believe that the other umps didn’t have enough integrity to overrule him.
Even more rare than a 4-HR game is a home-run cycle, which has been achieved only a few times in college baseball and softball, once in pro baseball, but never in MLB.
It’s when you get a solo HR, 2-run HR, 3-run HR, and grand slam in the same game.
I think Haddix has the least compelling argument for a perfect game than any of the other no-hitters that were taken away because they didn’t pitch the full 9. What he accomplished was unreal - but it just wasn’t a perfect game.
Rules at the time gave credit for a 9 inning no-hitter/perfect game even if a hit was given up in extra innings.
I don’t object to the “short” no-hitters being taken away as the pitcher didn’t go the full 9. No-hitters have been broken up in the 9th numerous times so that should be the minimum.
You now can’t get credit for a no hitter if you pitch a complete “9 inning” game, but you’re the visiting pitcher and you allowed a run and your team loses 1-0 so they only bat 8 times. That seems wrong to me.