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Robertson's uniform was checked, and Detroit kept several game balls, but nothing was ever found. In the ninth inning, Robertson retired pinch hitter Johnny Bassler for the final out. [1] The game lasted one hour and 55 minutes. [2] It was 34 years before anyone else pitched a perfect game in the majors.
Robertson's perfect game was the last for 34 years, when Don Larsen pitched one in the 1956 World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers; the next regular season perfect game would not come until Jim Bunning's perfect game in 1964. [3] After the perfect game, he suffered arm troubles for the rest of his career.
Robertson's perfect game was only his fifth appearance, and fourth start, in the big leagues. He finished his career with a 49–80 record, the fewest wins of any perfect-game pitcher until Dallas Braden; Robertson's winning percentage of .380 remains the lowest of anyone who threw a perfect game.
As defined by Major League Baseball, "in a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game." [2] These feats were achieved by Charlie Robertson in 1922, which was the first perfect game on the road in MLB history, Mark Buehrle in 2009, [4] and Philip Humber in 2012.
As of 2024, the Major League Baseball definition of a perfect game is largely a side effect of the decision made by the major leagues' Committee for Statistical Accuracy on September 4, 1991, to redefine a no-hitter as a game in which the pitcher or pitchers on one team throw a complete game of nine innings or more without surrendering a hit. [15]
Pages in category "Major League Baseball perfect games" The following 25 pages are in this category, out of 25 total. ... Charlie Robertson's perfect game;
Only 6,298 fans showed up for the evening contest, which is the smallest attendance to watch any MLB perfect game. The perfect game was the American League's first regular season perfect game since Charlie Robertson's perfect game in 1922, as well as the first no-hitter in the Athletics' Oakland history, which was in only its 25th game after ...
Bunning posted the first regular-season perfect game since Charlie Robertson in 1922 (Don Larsen's perfect game was in the 1956 World Series). [15] The Phillies also won the second game of the doubleheader, 8–2, behind Rick Wise, who earned his first major league victory in his first start. [16]