That's because the rules stipulate that a pitcher is credited with a perfect game only if he prevents any baserunners for the entire game even if that game stretches beyond the usual nine innings. In Martinez's case, he lost his perfect game in the 10th, and Haddix lost his in the 13th. Not meeting the official definition of a perfect game are the efforts of Harvey Haddix of the Pittsburgh Pirates on and Pedro Martinez of the Montreal Expos on June 3, 1995. As noted, we've had just 21 perfect games in the modern era - i.e., since 1903, when the first AL-NL World Series was played. Those first two 19th-century perfectos are counted since they occurred in the National League, but they should really be dismissed since the rules of play were significantly different in 1880. Let's put the current perfect game drought in some historical context by looking at the time elapsed between each of those 23 perfect games: PITCHER, TEAM Yes, we've achieved several examples of almost-perfection over the last decade - including Drew Rasmussen's near miss on Sunday - but the perfect game itself has remained elusive.
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