Friggin' amazing, Halladay. That guy is so good.
First time pitching in the playoffs? Pffft, no big deal.
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Anytime dude.
I'm happy to help your sports teams to be successful..... it helps to distract you from the living in Philly part.
As you most likely know, by definition a perfect game is a no hitter. You can't say Hallady threw the only no hitter in post season history. It's easiest to say this is the second post season no hitter. The first being Larson.
The TBS commentators said that Nolan Ryan was the only other pitcher to throw a post-season no hitter...... I guess they should fire their fact checker....
No, I am absolutely correct. There has never been a perfect game that hasn't also been a no hitter. By definition, it would be impossible. You can't have no one reach first base and give up a hit.
A no-hitter is part of the requirements for a perfect game. But a perfect game requires more than just a no-hitter.
Absolutely. So to get back to the original point, the media is calling Larson's game a no hitter, because it WAS a no hitter. No one is saying that it wasn't a perfect game though.
I try, and I try, for you children, and this is how you reward me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_game
I try, and I try, for you children, and this is how you reward me.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_game
I don't think anyone is disagreeing with that definition....
Keep trying iJH
You could theoretically pitch a no-hitter and still lose the game (through walks, stolen bases, sac flys/bunts and errors). A perfect game means no one reaches first base, and is, by definition, a no hitter.
A perfect game is still a separate stat from a no hitter.
A perfect game is technically a no hitter because nobody got a hit but it was a clean no man on base game, while a no hitter has a blemish in that a runner reaches base. So a perfect game is still the rarer feat.
269 no hitters, 20 perfect games.
Do those 269 no-hitters include the 20 perfect games?
(and FWIW I think there have been 21 perfect games. Gallaraga got screwed on that bad call. He pitched a perfect game as far as I'm concerned)
Yankees win as usuall and it didnt take for more than 1 game for the umps to fail a call thankfully it did not cost the yankees the win. On a serious note if no replay is in at any way shape or form next year this shows that Selig is a joke of a owner.
The 269 no hitters do count perfect games. They also count post season no hitters.
If you throw a perfect game, you get a notch in the stat column for: perfect games, no hitters, complete games, and shutouts.
Much, much rarer. The claim that Halladay's is the second postseason no-hitter is exactly right. To say it was the first would be to diminish Larsen's feat. But since there have been only two, that claim has to be qualified. You really are required to mention that Larsen's wasn't just a no-hitter, but a perfect game as well.
Take a look at the official list of MLB no-hitters and you will see the perfect games included in the list. All of them list the player, team, date, opposing team, with a note saying "perfect game".
That's pretty annoying. As it is, the postseason records are now dominated by Braves and Yankees players of the last two decades because there are three playoff rounds now. It's not like it's difficult to separate out the World Series stats. Fortunately, others like www.baseball-reference.com will keep doing it anyway.
I just heard that Shane Victorino is the all-time Phillies post season hit leader. That just boggles my mind when they won the NL East from 1976-1978, 1980, and 1983. But I guess the extra round makes all the difference.
So I guess people forgot to tell the Rays that the playoffs started yesterday cause boy this is not the rays that I remember seeing in the regular season.
Just goes to show that the playoffs are a crapshoot. There's no way to predict who will play best in October. It's a shame in this case because there have been some indications that the Rays' roster will get blown up in the offseason. Hopefully it doesn't mean their window has closed.
On the other hand, I'd rather see a team win it all that has a real baseball stadium and fans that show up for their games.