The perfect games are, well, perfect. They are rare and only occur when a team allows zero hits, zero bases per ball and zero errors to their opponents. But there is a performance that is one step above the perfect game. It is even more perfect.
It’s when a pitcher does everything on his own and strikes every batter who walks towards the plate. This is exactly what Hope Trautwein of North Texas did over the weekend, becoming the first lady to achieve the feat in NCAA Division I history:
Although Texan Trautwein, 1.80 meters tall, was historically dominant, he had no three-ball counts in the 3-0 slate victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff, the senior said. to the Dallas Morning News who didn’t know it was happening:
I didn’t really realize I was like, ‘Okay, one less victory, the next.’ But until [el coach] Tate came up with the game ball and had it written there, and he said, ‘I don’t think anyone has ever done this before,’ I was like, ‘Oh, my God. I think you are right. ‘”
College pitchers have gotten so many strikeouts in a previous game (Trautwein actually had 21K in a five-hit game earlier this year), but no one has ever done so during a perfect seven innings.
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There is little evidence that it has ever happened in professional baseball or softball leagues. Maybe if Trautwein (born in Pflugerville, Texas) had known how perfect her day was going, she could have pulled out a Satchel Paige and told her gardeners to sit down while she handled the Lady Lions lineup on her own.