Perfect games

[Guest Bear]

If a pitcher is pitching a perfect game, and a batter hits a pop foul which the catcher drops for a error, but the pitcher gets the batter out on the next pitch and retires all other batters he faces, is he credited with a perfect game?

[Thunderheads]

11 minutes ago, Guest Bear said:

If a pitcher is pitching a perfect game, and a batter hits a pop foul which the catcher drops for a error, but the pitcher gets the batter out on the next pitch and retires all other batters he faces, is he credited with a perfect game?

Same scenario .... lets' say the pop foul goes into the stands and the catcher can't reach it ......  perfect game?

[noumpere]

^{From mlb.com:}

Perfect games and No-hitters:
An official perfect game occurs when a pitcher (or pitchers) retires each batter on the opposing team during the entire course of a game, which consists of at least nine innings. In a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game.

[wolfe_man]

30 minutes ago, Guest Bear said:

If a pitcher is pitching a perfect game, and a batter hits a pop foul which the catcher drops for a error, but the pitcher gets the batter out on the next pitch and retires all other batters he faces, is he credited with a perfect game?

To my knowledge, yes it is still a perfect game.  A perfect game means that the pitcher retires all 27 batters, the minimum, he is able to face over 9 innings.  If a runner reaches base at all, then that nullifies a perfect game, but it still may be a no-hitter as long as the runner reached via  walk or error.

[JaxRolo]

Absolutely...