perfect game

noun

: a baseball game in which a pitcher allows no hits, no runs, and no opposing batter to reach first base

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There have been growing pains as the program tries to climb in the NCHC, but this is no longer a group that needs to play a perfect game to just compete with the best teams in the nation. Corey Masisak, The Denver Post, 13 Mar. 2025 Softball shutouts Montverde Academy ace pitcher Nevaeh Williams tossed a five-inning perfect game with 10 strikeouts in a 10-0 win against Cornerstone Charter. Buddy Collings, Orlando Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2025 The Kings went 12-12 from the free-throw line, marking their first perfect game from the stripe this season. Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 4 Mar. 2025 Now a 37-year-old free agent, one of 65 still unsigned almost three weeks into spring training, Martinez became just the 18th hitter in MLB history to pull off the power-hitter's equivalent of a perfect game on June 21, 2015, as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for perfect game

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First Known Use

1907, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of perfect game was in 1907

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“Perfect game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/perfect%20game. Accessed 22 Mar. 2025.

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