How Many Perfect Games In MLB History Are There?

By current definition, a perfect game in baseball is one in which a pitcher completes a minimum of nine innings without allowing the opposing team to reach base. It is also a no-hit game, which means that the team does not record a hit through regular methods. If there are no extra innings, the game is a guaranteed win and a shutout.

In the history of Major League Baseball, which has been in existence for 154 years and has played over 238.000 games, there have officially been 24 perfect games.

An unofficial perfect game

Boston Red Sox pitchers Babe Ruth and Ernie Shore. In a 1917 game, Ruth was ejected after walking the first batter. Shore replaced him, erased the baserunner, and completed the game without allowing another.

The first perfect time the term “perfect game” occurred in relation to baseball was in 1908: a Chicago Tribune reporter, I. E. Sanborn wrote, commenting on Addie Joss’s performance against the Chicago White Sox, “ An absolutely perfect game, without run, without hit, and without letting an opponent reach first base by hook or crook, on hit, walk, or error, in nine innings.”

List Of Perfect Games In MLB

Scorecard for Richmond’s perfect game, 1880.

Although the first two games from the 19th century had different pitching rules, they still fit into this category.

	Date	Picher and age	Game
1	June 12, 1880	Lee Richmond, 23	Cleveland Blues, 0 – Worcester Worcesters, 1
2	June 17, 1880	John Montgomery Ward, 20	Providence Grays, 5 – Buffalo Bisons, 0
3	May 5, 1904	Cy Young, 37	Philadelphia Athletics, 0 – Boston Americans, 3
4	October 2, 1908	Addie Joss, 28	Chicago White Sox, 0 – Cleveland Naps, 1
5	April 30, 1922	Charlie Robertson, 26	Chicago White Sox, 2 – Detroit Tigers, 0
6	October 8, 1956	Don Larsen, 27	Brooklyn Dodgers, 0 – New York Yankees, 2
7	June 21, 1964	Jim Bunning, 32	Philadelphia Phillies, 6 – New York Mets, 0
8	September 9, 1965	Sandy Koufax, 29	Chicago Cubs, 0 – Los Angeles Dodgers, 1
9	May 8, 1968	Catfish Hunter, 22	Minnesota Twins, 0 – Oakland Athletics, 4
10	May 15, 1981	Len Barker, 25	Toronto Blue Jays, 0 – Cleveland Indians, 3
11	September 30, 1984	Mike Witt, 24	California Angels, 1 – Texas Rangers, 0
12	September 16, 1988	Tom Browning, 28	Los Angeles Dodgers, 0 – Cincinnati Reds, 1
13	July 28, 1991	Dennis Martínez, 36	Montreal Expos, 2 – Los Angeles Dodgers, 0
14	July 28, 1994	Kenny Rogers, 29	California Angels, 0 – Texas Rangers, 4
15	May 17, 1998	David Wells, 34	Minnesota Twins, 0 – New York Yankees, 4
16	July 18, 1999	David Cone, 36	Montreal Expos, 0 – New York Yankees, 6
17	May 18, 2004	Randy Johnson, 40	Arizona Diamondbacks, 2 – Atlanta Braves, 0
18	July 23, 2009	Mark Buehrle, 30	Tampa Bay Rays, 0 – Chicago White Sox, 5
19	May 9, 2010	Dallas Braden, 26	Tampa Bay Rays, 0 – Oakland Athletics, 4
20	May 29, 2010	Roy Halladay, 33	Philadelphia Phillies, 1 – Florida Marlins, 0
21	April 21, 2012	Philip Humber, 29	Chicago White Sox, 4 – Seattle Mariners, 0
22	June 13, 2012	Matt Cain, 27	Houston Astros, 0 -San Francisco Giants, 10
23	August 15, 2012	Félix Hernández, 26	Tampa Bay Rays, 0 – Seattle Mariners, 1
24	June 28, 2023	Domingo Germán, 30	New York Yankees, 11 – Oakland Athletics, 0

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