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Tacoma Rainiers baseball jersey #50, worn by John Halana when he pitched the Pacific Coast League's first perfect game on July 7,2001 in the Rainiers' 6-0 victory over Calgary. white with 100 years of minor league baseball patch.
Halana, who was sent to the minors after he struggled in consecutive starts for the Mariners, retired all 27 batters in order for the first nine-inning perfect game in the 99-year history of the Pacific Coast League. Halama struck out nine, and got 11 outs on grounders and seven on flyouts.
It took 98 years for true perfection to reach the Pacific Coast League. And when it did, John Halama was more than ready to accept the delivery.
The Tacoma southpaw tossed the first nine-inning perfect game in the PCL's storied history on July 7, 2001 as he blanked Calgary, 6-0, in front of nearly 7,000 fans at Cheney Stadium. There had been four perfect games in the PCL prior to Halama's masterpiece, but each was only seven innings. The last of those had come in 1975, when Hawaii's Gary Ross blanked Salt Lake.Relationships
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