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Old Wed Dec 20, 2006, 10:39pm
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Baseball stat guys have gone back and disavowed games that were one time no hitters or perfect games. The reason for this being that the game didn't go the requisite nine innings.

That's true, and there used to be a "perfect game" that Babe Ruth started where he walked the first batter and then got thrown out of the game. Ernie Shore relieved, the runner was thrown out stealing, and Shore then retired the next 26 batters. That game still appears on some lists of perfect games, but I believe it was (much later) officially declared not a perfect game.

But a dropped foul pop, whether or not scored an error, has no bearing on a perfect game.
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