Jim Bunning Perfect Game Box Score by Baseball Almanac

Jim Bunning Perfect Game Box Score

Jim Bunning, a father of seven children at the time, pitched the best game of his career on the best day he could imagine — Father's Day.

"It was a great play (a hard hit shot to Tony Taylor). When he did that, I knew I had something special." - Jim Bunning

Hitting & Fielding Notes


NAME	POS	AB	R	H	RBI
John Briggs	cf	4	1	0	0
John Herrnstein	1b	4	0	0	0
Johnny Callison	rf	4	1	2	1
Dick Allen	3b	3	0	1	1
Wes Covington	lf	2	0	0	0
Bobby Wine	pr-ss	1	1	0	0
Tony Taylor	2b	3	2	1	0
Cookie Rojas	ss-lf	3	0	1	0
Gus Triandos	c	4	1	2	2
Jim Bunning	p	4	0	1	2
TOTALS		32	6	8	6


NAME	POS	AB	R	H	RBI
Jim Hickman	cf	3	0	0	0
Ron Hunt	2b	3	0	0	0
Ed Kranepool	1b	3	0	0	0
Joe Christopher	rf	3	0	0	0
Jesse Gonder	c	3	0	0	0
Hawk Taylor	lf	3	0	0	0
Charley Smith	ss	3	0	0	0
Amado Samuel	3b	2	0	0	0
George Altman	ph	1	0	0	0
Tracy Stallard	p	1	0	0	0
Bill Wakefield	p	0	0	0	0
Rod Kanehl	ph	1	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	p	0	0	0	0
John Stephenson	ph	1	0	0	0
TOTALS		27	0	0	0

Caught Stealing: Rojas.
Doubles: Triandos, Bunning.
Home Runs: Callison.
Left On Base: Philadelphia 5.
Sacrifice: Herrnstein, Rojas.

Line Score

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
Philadelphia	1	1	0	0	0	4	0	0	0	6	8	0
New York	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Pitching Notes


NAME	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Jim Bunning	9.0	0	0	0	0	10


NAME	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO
Tracy Stallard	5.2	7	6	6	4	3
Bill Wakefield	0.1	0	0	0	0	0
Tom Sturdivant	3.0	1	0	0	0	3

Losing Pitcher: Stallard (4-9).
Winning Pitcher: Bunning (7-2).

Wild Pitch: Stallard.

Game Notes

Attendance: 32,026.
Length of Game: 2:19.
Umpires: HP: Ed Sudol, 1B: Paul Pryor, 2B: Frank Secory, 3B: Ken Burkhart.

Jim Bunning Perfect Game Box Score

In the ninth inning, Jim Bunning called his catcher, Gus Triandos, to the mound. What did they talk about? Triandos stated after the game, "He said I should tell him a joke, just to get a breather. I couldn't think of anything. I just laughed at him."

Did you know that Jim Bunning threw ninety pitches of which seventy-nine went for strikes during this perfect game?

What did Jim Bunning do immediately after the game was over? He appeared that same night on the Ed Sullivan Show.

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