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Letters To The Editor.
The Fans Speak Out
We talk baseball at work all year around, and this subject came up recently. A guy at work said a pitcher can throw a perfect game and still have an error committed by one of his fielders, such as a third baseman dropping a pop foul.
The batter in this case is still up and goes out anyway.
I say this cannot be a perfect game because of the error. Am I correct?
Tim Liljeberg Brooklyn Park, Minn.
Our interpretation of a perfect, no-hit game is one in which the pitcher does not allow any opposing batters to reach first base either by a base hit, walk, hit batsman or fielding error, retiring all 27 opposing batters in a row over the course of the game.
Since the error mentioned in your example did not allow the batter to reach base, we contend the pitcher should be credited with a perfect game.
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