félix hernández pitched the last perfect game in baseball.
who pitched the last perfect game in baseball?
félix hernández
on july 28, 1991, dennis martínez of the montreal expos pitched the 13th perfect game in major league baseball history, blanking the los angeles dodgers 2-0 at dodger stadium. a native of granada, nicaragua, martínez became the first pitcher born outside of the united states to pitch a perfect game. (he has since been joined by venezuela native félix hernández, who pitched a perfect game in 2012.) the perfect game also made the dodgers, the losing team in tom browning's perfect game in 1988, the first team to be on the losing end of consecutive perfect games; they have since been joined by the tampa bay rays, who were the losing team in mark buehrle's perfect game in 2009 and dallas braden's perfect game the following year. after completing the perfect game, martínez slowly walked into the dodger stadium dugout, sat down by himself and cried.
dennis martínez's perfect game
rogers pitched the fourteenth perfect game in baseball history on july 28, 1994 with the rangers against the california angels (the last no-hitter in rangers history to date, and the only perfect game in franchise history). soon after his feat, he appeared on abc's "good morning america" on july 29, 1994, and on cbs's "late show with david letterman" on august 1, 1994. he also met and appeared with musician kenny rogers at a function in arlington, texas on august 13, 1994. rogers' 1994 perfect game was caught by iván rodríguez, who in june 2007 caught the no-hitter of detroit tiger justin verlander, both of whom were teammates of rogers at the time. the game took place exactly three years to the day of the last perfect game, pitched by dennis martínez of the montreal expos on july 28, 1991.
kenny rogers (baseball)