Perfect!

Wow! I witnessed my first perfect game tonight... granted it was on TV... but I witnessed it nonetheless. Randy Johnson completed the rarest feat in Baseball... 27 batters faced... 27 batters retired... a perfect game!

What is a perfect game in baseball? Author Paul Dickson in The New Baseball Dictionary (1999) describes it best with, "A no-hitter in which no opposing player reaches first base, either by a base hit, base on balls, hit batter, or fielding error; i.e., the pitcher or pitchers retire all 27 opposing batters in order."

Tonight Randy Johnson of the Arizona Diamondbacks became just the 17th pitcher in history of baseball to pitch an official perfect game:

"Official" Perfect Games
Pitcher Date Box Score Match Up
Lee Richmond 06-12-1880 Worcester 1 vs Cleveland 0
John Ward 06-17-1880 Providence 5 vs Buffalo 0
Cy Young 05-05-1904 Boston 3 vs Philadelphia 0
Addie Joss 10-02-1908 Cleveland 1 vs Chicago 0
Charlie Robertson 04-30-1922 Chicago 2 at Detroit 0
Don Larsen 10-08-1956 New York 2 vs Brooklyn 0
Jim Bunning 06-21-1964 Philadelphia 6 at New York 0
Sandy Koufax 09-09-1965 Los Angeles 1 vs Chicago 0
Catfish Hunter 05-08-1968 Oakland 4 vs Minnesota 0
Len Barker 05-15-1981 Cleveland 3 vs Toronto 0
Mike Witt 09-30-1984 California 1 at Texas 0
Tom Browning 09-16-1988 Cincinnati 1 vs Los Angeles 0
Dennis Martinez 07-28-1991 Montreal 2 at Los Angeles 0
Kenny Rogers 07-28-1994 Texas 4 vs California 0
David Wells 05-17-1998 New York 4 vs Minnesota 0
David Cone 07-18-1999 New York 6 vs Montreal 0
Randy Johnson 05-18-2004 Arizona 2 vs Atlanta 0