off season brain teaser

[greymule]

No, just a no-hitter. Perfect means perfect, as in no mistakes by the defense.

A perfect game is a game in which no batter reaches 1B safely. The following do not break up a perfect game:

1. Errors charged on dropped foul pops.
2. Apparent extra-base hits, including over-the-fence home runs, on which the BR is subsequently called out on appeal for missing 1B.
3. BR reaching 2B or beyond on an error, ball 4 passed ball, or ball 4 wild pitch, and then being called on out appeal for missing 1B.
4. Batter being HBP or being awarded 1B on ball 4 and then refusing to advance to 1B and being called out.

However, in case #2 and case #4 (and the "error" play in case #3), the batter is charged with an at bat.

As soon as a batter reaches 1B safely, the perfect game is over. Until then, it's a perfect game.

Always before if a player dropped a foul ball it was NEVER called an error until the batter finsihed his at bat -- if he made an out there was no error -- NOW a days they credit the rror immediately -- so if the "Able" hots a foul pop and is clearly erred by F3 -- next 27 hitters retired . . . is that a perfect game?

I'm 58. It's been an error as long as I can remember. No waiting to see what happens. If Abel hits a foul pop that F5 drops, and then hits a foul pop that F2 drops, and then hits a foul pop that F3 drops, and then strikes out. Score 3 errors and a strikeout. And if Dale Mitchell had done that on October 8, 1956, Don Larsen would still have been credited with a perfect game.