In ATH this morning I lazily assumed that someone had done a study of pitcher performances one start after perfect games. My Google button is broken, see, so I had no way to obtain that information myself.
Thank goodness for our friend Jason Lukehart, then. He went back and looked at ever pitcher who ever threw a perfect game and summarized their subsequent performances. Most of them, anyway. Some of the 19th century games aren’t available, in which case Jason adds a factoid or two.
My favorite tidbit: one of the perfect pitchers gave up 8 runs on 8 hits and walked five in his next outing, yet his team still won, and there’s an argument to be made that he was the hero of the game.
Fun stuff. Thanks for not being as lazy as me, Jason.
