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perfect game
In baseball, a complete game in which the pitcher allows no batter to reach base at all — no hits, no walks, no errors — retiring every opposing hitter in order.
完全試合を達成する。
To pitch a perfect game.
完全試合はめった}に{出ない記録だ。
A perfect game is a record that rarely happens.
九回二死まで完全試合だったが、最後に一本打たれた。
It was a perfect game until two outs in the ninth, but he gave up a hit at the very end.
A baseball term for the rarest kind of dominant pitching: not a single opposing batter reaches base. Stricter than a no-hitter, which still allows walks and errors.
COMMON COLLOCATIONS:
- 完全試合を達成する: to achieve a perfect game
- 完全試合達成投手: the pitcher who threw the perfect game
SIMILAR WORDS:
- ノーヒットノーラン: no-hitter — no hits allowed, but walks or errors may let runners on base
- 完封: shutout — allowing no runs, though base runners are permitted