Jim Bunning’s perfect game in 1964 was the first perfect game in the National League in 84 years.
Bunning, a Hall of Famer, was pitching for the Philadelphia Phillies in’64.
Then, what didn’t happen in the NL for 84 years, happened two years in a row as Sandy Koufax pitched a perfect game in 1965.
Twenty pitches have thrown a perfect game in Major League Baseball history.
The most recent one was Philadelphia ace Roy Halladay’s perfect game May 29, 2010. That came just 20 days after Dallas Braden threw one for the Oakland Athletics.
Cy Young is the only Boston pitcher ever to hurl a perfect game. He did it May 5, 1904.
