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Felix Hernandez thrilled ans on August 15 with the Mariners frst perect  game. He w as dominant as he struck out 12 in his 1-0 gem against the Tampa Bay Rays. On the ollowing pages, we look back at that remarkab le eat through photos and  statistical acts. We hope  you enjoy reliving this historical per ormance . The perect game was the 23rd in Major League history, the 14th the American League, and the rst in Mariners history (5,700th game in club history including postseason). The last Mariners starting pitcher to record a no-hitter was Chris Bosio on April 22, 1993 vs the Red Sox at the Kingdome…Felix’ s perecto was the 3rd individual no-hitter in club history (Bosio and Randy Johnson) and the 4th overall (1 combined no-hitter). The previous closet the Mariners have come to a perect game was on April 20, 1990 when Brian Holman had a perecto through 8.2 innings at Oakland beore Ken Phelps hit a pinch-hit home run.  22 MARINERS MAGAZINE
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Felix King of Perfection

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Felix Hernandez thrilled 

ans on August 15 with

the Mariners frst perect  game. He was dominant 

as he struck out 12 in

his 1-0 gem against the

Tampa Bay Rays. On the

ollowing pages, we look 

back at that remarkableeat through photos and 

 statistical acts. We hope

 you enjoy reliving this

historical perormance.

The perect game was the 23rd in

Major League history, the 14th the

American League, and the rst in

Mariners history (5,700th game in

club history including postseason).

•The last Mariners starting pitcher

to record a no-hitter was Chris

Bosio on April 22, 1993 vs the Red

Sox at the Kingdome…Felix’s

perecto was the 3rd individual

no-hitter in club history (Bosio and

Randy Johnson) and the 4th overall

(1 combined no-hitter).

•The previous closet the Mariners

have come to a perect game wason April 20, 1990 when Brian

Holman had a perecto through

8.2 innings at Oakland beore Ken

Phelps hit a pinch-hit home run.

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At 26 years, 129 days, Felix became the

youngest pitcher to throw a perect

game since Mike Witt (24.072) in 1984.

The perect game produced a game score (Bill James stat calculating a pitcher’s

dominance) o 99…it was the 9th time in the DH era that an AL pitcher recorded

score that high in a 9-inning game, and the 4th-highest in any perect game.

Felix recorded 12 strikeouts in the perect game, the 4th-most in

a perect game trailing 14 by Sandy Kouax (1965) and Matt

Cain (2012) and 13 by Randy Johnson (2004)…it

was the 4th game this season in which Felix

struck out 12+ batters, ater entering

the 2012 season with our 12+

strikeout games in his career.

The 1-0 victory marked Felix’s third

1-0 shutout o the season (thru Aug.

15), setting a Mariners single-season

record and tying the Mariners career

record…he became the rst pitcher

since Bob Ojeda (NYM) in 1988 to

record a trio o 1-0 shutouts.

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ALL-TIME PERFECT GAMES IN ML HISTORY (23)

American League (14)

Pitcher Date Result

Felix Hernandez 08-15-2012 Seattle 1, Tampa Bay 0

Philip Humber 04-21-2012 Chicago 4, Seattle 0

Dallas Braden 05-09-2010 Oakland 4, Tampa Bay 0Mark Buehrle 07-23-2009 Chicago 5, Tampa Bay 0

David Cone 07-18-1999 New York 6, Montreal 0

David Wells 05-17-1998 New York 4, Minnesota 0

Kenny Rogers 07-28-1994 Texas 4, Caliornia 0

Mike Witt 09-30-1984 Caliornia 1, Texas 0

Len Barker 05-15-1981 Cleveland 3, Toronto 0

Catsh Hunter 05-08-1968 Oakland 4, Minnesota 0

Don Larsen 10-08-1956 New York 2, Brooklyn 0*

Charlie Robertson 04-30-1922 Chicago 2, Detroit 0

Addie Joss 10-02-1908 Cleveland 1, Chicago 0

Cy Young 05-05-1904 Boston 3, Philadelphia 0

* Game 5, 1956 World Series

National League (9)Pitcher Date Result

Matt Cain 06-13-2012 San Francisco 10, Houston 0

Roy Halladay 05-29-2010 Philadelphia 1, Florida 0

Randy Johnson 05-18-2004 Arizona 2, Atlanta 0

Dennis Martinez 07-28-1991 Montreal 2, Los Angeles 0

Tom Browning 09-16-1988 Cincinnati 1, Los Angeles 0

Sandy Kouax 09-09-1965 Los Angeles 1, Chicago 0

Jim Bunning 06-21-1964 Philadelphia 6, New York 0

Monte Ward 06-17-1880 Providence 5, Bufalo 0

Lee Richmond 06-12-1880 Worcester 1, Cleveland 0

The perfect game added to the 2012 Major League season that may need

to be labeled the season of no-hitters…•Was the 6th no-hitter this season, trailing only 1990 and 1991 (7) or most no-hitters

in a single season (since 1901)…the 1908, 1917 and 1969 seasons also produced

6 no-hitters.

•First season in MLB histor y with three perect games (Philip Humber, Matt Cain,

Felix Hernandez).

•63 days since the last perect

game (Matt Cain, June

13) was the 3rd-smallest

date range in MLB history

between perect games

(Dallas Braden & RoyHalladay – 20 days in 2010;

Philip Humber & Matt Cain –

53 days in 2012).

Felix’s performance also marked the

second perfect game to be thrown

at Safeco Field this season (Philip

Humber, April 21 vs. Seattle) and

the third no-hitter (Seattle used

6 pitchers in combined no-hitter

 June 8 vs. the Dodgers).

The Mariners became the rst team inMLB history to throw a perect game,

and have one thrown against them in

the same season.

•Saeco Field became the rst venue to

host two perect games in the same

season, and joins old Yankee Stadium

(3), Dodger Stadium (2) and Oakland

Coliseum (2) as the only stadiums to

host multiple perect games.

•Saeco Field is the rst stadium with

3+ no-hitters in the same seasonsince 1917 Sportsman’s Park (St. Louis

Browns).

•The last team prior to Seattle with 2 no-

hitters in a regular season was the 1973

Angels (Nolan Ryan 2 no-hitters).