Spoiler alert! When a perfect game is at stake, the 27th batter has hit .278/.333/.417.

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1. I feel like Dave Stieb knows this lol

2. Am I crazy for thinking that’s basically the average slashline? I have no idea what it would actually work out to be.

3. If you switch Jim Joyce’s blown call at the end of Armando Galarraga’s almost-perfect game from a hit to an out, the slash line drops to .250/.308/.389.

4. Eric Chavez will never be forgiven

5. Harvey Haddix threw 12 perfect innings and took a loss 😅😅. I would have murdered my team on the train ride home under the cover of night. Slipping from one sleeping car to the next. Timing my stabbings with the loud brakes of the old train. Tiptoeing to and fro until the slaughter ends

6. Do you know how many times it was a pinch-hitter?

7. Martin Gonzalez breaking up the Darvish perfect game was absolutely heartbreaking

8. >Pedro Martinez

   Let it be known that no man can get 28 Padres out in a row

9. In all starts that turn out to be a perfect game, the 1st batter has hit .000/.000/.000

10. That is better than I would have expected.

11. I remember watching that HR. So much “almost” in Mariners history

12. > On April 20, 1990, Brian Holman of the Seattle Mariners gave up a home run to Ken Phelps of the Oakland Athletics.

    Guess Phelps did get some retribution for the Buhner trade even if it wasn’t with the Yankees

13. This is why it’s wise to walk away with $500,000 after the 26th out

14. This reddit off-season is shaping up to be my favorite.
    Thank you OP.

15. I remember watching Mike Mussina’s near miss in 2001. Jorge Posada thought he was going to get a called strike three, so you could read his body language and see him almost start celebrating. Then Carl Everett dumped a bloop single to left.

    I read something like 50% of no-hitters through 8 get spoiled in the ninth, so it seems like getting through 8 is something akin to being only halfway there.

16. Stupid Jose Tabata

17. What I wanna know is, what percentage of n-out games are perfect to that point? Id guess that about 65% of games are still perfect after their first out, due to leadoff hitters getting on base. And that number probably drops off fast. 

    But with this info, you could see, for example, the percentage of games that are perfect through 5 innings remaining perfect. 

18. Pedro pitching 9 perfect innings and the expos not being able to score a run is a baseball war crime

19. Maybe they should walk that guy and face the 28th batter /s

20. Yoshinobu Yamamoto would like to know your location

21. We were really unlucky from 2013-2022. 3 times in a row where the 27th batter reached base.