Definition of "perfect game" [perfect game]

• Baseball A complete game in which no opposing batter reaches first base. (noun)
• Sports A game in bowling in which a player bowls 12 successive strikes. (noun)

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• "Seeing it situated in the same locations it existed in the pre-renovation model of the old ballpark, the image of Don Larsen’s ninety-seventh and his last pitch of his ’56 World Series perfect game immediately came to mind."
• "Continuing to throw hard through the middle innings, his better-than-normal fastball had the oldest Yankees fans in attendance recalling an October afternoon in 1956 when Don Larsen retired twenty-seven straight for the only perfect game in postseason history."
• "With one out in the seventh, Boston second baseman Mark Bellhorn ended Mussina’s bid for a perfect game by ripping a double to the base of the left center-field wall."