Yeah, the Wikipedia article states, "In sum, a perfect game occurs once in about every 11,000 major league contests." It also breaks the 18 down to 16 in the modern era. Also a whole interesting pile of near-perfect or oughta-be-called-perfect games. But not many of those, either.

I mean, even a no-hitter is a rare event.

What fascinates me is that with the exception of special events, such as weather, a game is going to go to 27 outs for the losing team one way or another. Statistics are not causes. (grin)

Dr. Phil