Perfect Game
There have been 23 perfect games since 1897, measured across 225,734 games, an average of one occurrence every 9,814 games. The most recent was Domingo German on 28 June 2023; the first was Cy Young on 5 May 1904.
One starting pitcher completes at least nine innings without an opposing batter reaching base. The historical corpus includes postseason games and Reuben Curry; the two 1880 games precede its coverage.
This corpus includes regular-season and postseason records, including Don Larsen's 1956 World Series game and the recorded Negro Leagues game by Reuben Curry. The two perfect games from 1880 precede its coverage. The count below describes this covered set, not a regular-season-only total.
23recorded occurrences
1 in 9,814games · 1897+
1904first · Cy Young
2023-06-28most recent · Domingo German
30y 3mlongest drought · 1926-07-13 to 1956-10-08
By decade
Recorded occurrences in each decade within this page’s coverage.
Where it happens
23 of 23 occurrences join to a ballpark; the rest are this season, which the corpus has not absorbed yet. Counted by host park, so a road feat is credited to the ground it happened on.
Home clubs
Every occurrence (23 of them)
| Date | Player | # | Game | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-06-28 | 9 | 23 | ↗ | |
| 2012-08-15 | 12 | 22 | ↗ | |
| 2012-06-13 | 14 | 21 | ↗ | |
| 2012-04-21 | 9 | 20 | ↗ | |
| 2010-05-29 | 11 | 19 | ↗ | |
| 2010-05-09 | DBDallas Braden | 6 | 18 | ↗ |
| 2009-07-23 | 6 | 17 | ↗ | |
| 2004-05-18 | 13 | 16 | ↗ | |
| 1999-07-18 | 10 | 15 | ↗ | |
| 1998-05-17 | 11 | 14 | ↗ | |
| 1994-07-28 | 8 | 13 | ↗ | |
| 1991-07-28 | 5 | 12 | ↗ | |
| 1988-09-16 | 7 | 11 | ↗ | |
| 1984-09-30 | 10 | 10 | ↗ | |
| 1981-05-15 | 11 | 9 | ↗ | |
| 1968-05-08 | 11 | 8 | ↗ | |
| 1965-09-09 | 14 | 7 | ↗ | |
| 1964-06-21 | 10 | 6 | ↗ | |
| 1956-10-08 | DLDon Larsen | 7 | 5 | ↗ |
| 1926-07-13 | RCReuben Curry | 4 | 4 | ↗ |
| 1922-04-30 | CRCharlie Robertson | 6 | 3 | ↗ |
| 1908-10-02 | 3 | 2 | ↗ | |
| 1904-05-05 | 8 | 1 | ↗ |