{"id":40608,"date":"2020-01-03T00:50:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40608"},"modified":"2020-01-03T00:50:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-03T00:50:01","slug":"r-i-p-mr-perfect-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40608","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P., Mr. Perfect Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Don Larsen pitched one whale of a Major League Baseball game back on Oct. 8, 1956.<\/p>\n

He was throwing for the New York Yankees in that year’s World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. He threw a perfect game. Twenty-seven batters came to the plate; they made 27 outs.<\/p>\n

It was picture perfect.<\/p>\n

Larsen died on New Year’s Day at the age of 90. Media have reported that Larsen pitched the “only perfect game<\/em> in World Series history.”<\/p>\n

I want to put that feat into its proper perspective. Not only did he throw the only perfect game, he threw the only World Series no-hitter \u2026 period!<\/em> Do you get where I’m going with this? No-hitters themselves are worth noting, even if runners reach base on a walk, or a fielding error.<\/p>\n

The very notion that Larsen’s feat was even more expansive than a “perfect game” is worthy of saluting as the New York Yankees legend is laid to rest.<\/p>\n\n

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Don Larsen pitched one whale of a Major League Baseball game back on Oct. 8, 1956. He was throwing for the New York Yankees in that year’s World Series against the Brooklyn Dodgers. He threw a perfect game. Twenty-seven batters came to the plate; they made 27 outs. It was picture perfect. Larsen died on … Continue reading R.I.P., Mr. Perfect Game<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[5506,3105,3289,9134,5299],"class_list":["post-40608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports-news","tag-don-larsen","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-yankees","tag-perfect-game","tag-world-series"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40610,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40608\/revisions\/40610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}