How to Use perfect game in a Sentence

perfect game

noun
  • In a perfect game, no one can even reach base.
    — Steve Futterman, NPR, 9 Sep. 2025
  • None of us go out there and play a perfect game.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 22 Sep. 2025
  • This wasn’t a perfect game from the Sabres.
    — Matthew Fairburn, New York Times, 7 May 2026
  • There’s not going to be a perfect game.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 27 Sep. 2025
  • That perfect game ended in the eighth -- just as this one did.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 13 Apr. 2022
  • This is the perfect game to guess who plans on doing what in the new year.
    — Aly Walansky, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021
  • If there were such a thing as a perfect game for a punter, Hekker had it.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2020
  • First was a single in the fourth inning to break up the perfect game.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 30 Aug. 2022
  • But the Bears will have to play a near-perfect game to prevail.
    — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2021
  • In his next start, of course, Larsen authored a perfect game.
    — Tyler Kepner, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • His team might play a perfect game and still lose because of talent.
    — Jayson Jenks, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • Castillo’s bid for a perfect game was over with two outs in the fifth inning.
    — Bobby Nightengale, Cincinnati.com, 8 May 2018
  • Schoop drilled Cole's first-pitch cutter to break up the perfect game.
    — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 4 June 2022
  • My first perfect game in a few days brings my overall win streak up to 10.
    — Kris Holt, Forbes, 5 Nov. 2024
  • The Bengals have yet to play their perfect game on offense yet.
    — Kelsey Conway, The Enquirer, 22 Oct. 2022
  • If there’s a level better than a perfect game, Houck was on it.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Oct. 2021
  • Mike Brown lost his perfect game and needs to dust himself off for Game 4.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • The senior threw a perfect game against Ben Davis striking out eight.
    — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 16 May 2023
  • The Bears will have to play a near-perfect game Sunday to pull off an upset.
    — Colleen Kane, chicagotribune.com, 4 Dec. 2021
  • The task is a tall one, and Klatt says Indiana will need to play a perfect game.
    — Stefan Krajisnik, The Indianapolis Star, 21 Nov. 2020
  • Soon, a young pitcher will throw the first perfect game in the history of the franchise’s new home.
    — Laurence Miedema, The Mercury News, 12 May 2024
  • Mike Brown has been pitching a perfect game for a very long time, so yes, the man deserves some space and grace.
    — Ian O'Connor, New York Times, 9 June 2026
  • Only the walk stood between Morehead and a perfect game.
    — Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
  • And that one, too, was foiled by the Orioles, who have never been involved in a perfect game.
    — Andy Kostka, Baltimore Sun, 14 Aug. 2022
  • There have been 16 perfect games in the 60 years since Koufax pitched his.
    — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Sometimes the pitcher is going to have a better game, is going to throw a perfect game.
    — Chandler Rome, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2025
  • Jacob struck out seven while throwing a perfect game with Nathan behind the plate.
    — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Lambert came close to a perfect game, but hit a North Side batter in the fourth inning.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 25 Apr. 2026
  • The Rams needed to play a perfect game on Saturday night, and didn’t come close to it.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2021
  • Rolfe struck out 14 Station Camp batters in the perfect game win.
    — al, 15 Mar. 2022

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