<P> Larsen needed just 97 pitches to complete the game , and only one Dodger batter ( Pee Wee Reese in the first inning ) was able to get a 3 - ball count . In 1998 , Larsen recalled , `` I had great control . I never had that kind of control in my life . '' The closest the Dodgers came to a hit were in the second inning , when Jackie Robinson hit a line drive off third baseman Andy Carey 's glove , the ball caroming to shortstop Gil McDougald , who threw Robinson out by a step , and in the fifth , when Mickey Mantle ran down Gil Hodges ' deep fly ball . Brooklyn 's Maglie gave up only two runs on five hits and was perfect himself until Mantle 's fourth - inning home run broke the scoreless tie . The Yankees added an insurance run in the sixth as Hank Bauer 's single scored Carey , who had opened the inning with a single and was sacrificed to second by Larsen . After Roy Campanella grounded out to Billy Martin for the second out of the 9th inning , Larsen faced pinch hitter Dale Mitchell , a . 312 career hitter . Throwing fastballs , Larsen got ahead in the count at 1 -- 2 . On his 97th pitch , Larsen struck out Mitchell for the 27th consecutive and final out . Mitchell tried to check his swing on that last pitch , but home plate umpire Babe Pinelli , who would retire at the end of this World Series , called the last pitch a strike . Mitchell , who only struck out 119 times in 3,984 at - bats ( or once every 34 at - bats ) during his career , always maintained that the third strike he took was really a ball . </P>
<P> Larsen needed just 97 pitches to complete the game , and only one Dodger batter ( Pee Wee Reese in the first inning ) was able to get a 3 - ball count . In 1998 , Larsen recalled , `` I had great control . I never had that kind of control in my life . '' The closest the Dodgers came to a hit were in the second inning , when Jackie Robinson hit a line drive off third baseman Andy Carey 's glove , the ball caroming to shortstop Gil McDougald , who threw Robinson out by a step , and in the fifth , when Mickey Mantle ran down Gil Hodges ' deep fly ball . Brooklyn 's Maglie gave up only two runs on five hits and was perfect himself until Mantle 's fourth - inning home run broke the scoreless tie . The Yankees added an insurance run in the sixth as Hank Bauer 's single scored Carey , who had opened the inning with a single and was sacrificed to second by Larsen . After Roy Campanella grounded out to Billy Martin for the second out of the 9th inning , Larsen faced pinch hitter Dale Mitchell , a . 312 career hitter . Throwing fastballs , Larsen got ahead in the count at 1 -- 2 . On his 97th pitch , Larsen struck out Mitchell for the 27th consecutive and final out . Mitchell tried to check his swing on that last pitch , but home plate umpire Babe Pinelli , who would retire at the end of this World Series , called the last pitch a strike . Mitchell , who only struck out 119 times in 3,984 at - bats ( or once every 34 at - bats ) during his career , always maintained that the third strike he took was really a ball . </P>
who made the last out in don larsen 's perfect game
who made the last out in don larsen 's perfect game
Dale Mitchell
Dale Mitchell