Comments on: Braden’s top game scores http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5894 This and that about baseball stats. Tue, 16 Jul 2013 17:01:55 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6 By: Michael Poplawski http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/archives/5894/comment-page-1#comment-18209 Mon, 10 May 2010 18:49:09 +0000 http://www.baseball-reference.com/blog/?p=5894#comment-18209 Very democratic of Braden to allow his defense to record 21 outs. Now, will he stop getting all the credit for the perfect game?

If you think about it, the only true perfect game would be if the pitcher recorded all 27 putouts himself. The MLB record is 7, set by Greg Maddux in 1990.

That's pretty impressive, but as Maddux found out in his long career a perfect game or a no-hitter is more likely if you simply play catch with your catcher. I don't believe Maddux ever threw a no-hit game.

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