Catfish Hunter's Perfect Game

Catfish Hunter threw a perfect game for the Oakland Athletics against the Minnesota Twins on May 8, 1968. No batter reached base: twenty-seven faced, twenty-seven retired. The final score was 4–0.

The game was played at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland. Catfish Hunter struck out 11. The announced attendance was 6,298. The game took 2h 28m. It was a night game.

It is the sixth of 21 perfect games the archive records between 1904 and 2023. It was the only one of Catfish Hunter's career. It was one of five no-hitters thrown across the major leagues in 1968. Dave Boswell took the loss for the Minnesota Twins. The Minnesota Twins used two pitchers of their own. Jerry Neudecker umpired behind the plate.