What is "perfect game"

n. (context baseball English) A game in which every batter on one team is retired without reaching base.

n. a game in which a pitcher does not allow any opposing player to reach base

A perfect game is defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings and in which no opposing player reaches base. Thus, the pitcher (or pitchers) cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any other reason: in short, "27 up, 27 down". The feat has been achieved 23 times in MLB history – 21 times since the modern era began in 1900, most recently by Félix Hernández of the Seattle Mariners on August 15, 2012.

A perfect game is also a no-hitter and a shutout. A fielding error that does not allow a batter to reach base, such as a misplayed foul ball, does not spoil a perfect game. Weather-shortened contests in which a team has no baserunners and games in which a team reaches first base only in extra innings do not qualify as perfect games under the present definition. The first confirmed use of the term "perfect game" was in ; the current definition of the term was formalized in . Although it is possible for multiple pitchers to combine for a perfect game (as has happened 11 times at the major league level for a no-hitter), to date, every major league perfect game has been thrown by a single pitcher. In Nippon Professional Baseball, no-hitters or perfect games that use two or more pitchers are considered unofficial.

A perfect game is the highest score possible in a game of bowling, achieved by rolling a strike during every frame. In bowling games that use 10 pins, such as ten-pin bowling, candlepin bowling, and duckpin bowling, the highest possible score is 300, achieved by bowling 12 strikes in a row in a single game: one strike in each of the first nine frames, and three more in the tenth frame. Because a strike counts as ten pins plus any pinfall in the next two balls, 30 points are possible in a given frame.

In five-pin bowling, the highest possible score is 450, as a strike is worth 15 pins. It is rare to bowl or witness one. The Canadian Five Pin Bowlers Association approves from 10 to 40 perfect games per year.

A Perfect game is a baseball win credited to a single pitcher that throws a complete game of at least nine innings without allowing any opponent to reach first base. This term may also refer to:

• Perfect game (bowling), a 300-point game
• Perfect Game Collegiate Baseball League, New York
• The Perfect Game, a 2009 film
• Perfect Game (2000 film), a 2000 made-for-TV film
• Perfect Game (2011 film), a 2011 South Korean film
• Perfect Game Recording Co., a record label

Perfect Game is a 2000 American comedy-drama television film about an eleven-year-old boy who loves baseball and yearns to play on his local Little League team. It was produced for the Disney Channel, where it was first aired.

Perfect Game is a 2011 South Korean film based on the true story of rivals Sun Dong-yeol of the Haitai Tigers and Choi Dong-won of the Lotte Giants, the top pitchers in the Korea Baseball Organization league during the 1980s. The rivalry between the two was further heated up by regionalism at the time with Sun representing the Jeolla Province and Choi, the Gyeongsang Province.

The sports movie revisits one of the most exciting matches in Korean baseball history on May 16, 1987, which would be the last time the two stars would face each other, and ended in a 15- inning draw, although neither actually pitched a perfect game. It stars Jo Seung-woo as Choi and Yang Dong-geun as Sun.

"Perfect Game" is the third single released by the Thompson Twins and the first taken from their debut album, A Product Of... (Participation). It was released in January 1981 on the T Records imprint, a label created by the band and distributed through the Fame/EMI label. The B-side to the single is the single mix of "Politics".