David Wells's Perfect Game

David Wells threw a perfect game for the New York Yankees against the Minnesota Twins on May 17, 1998. No batter reached base: twenty-seven faced, twenty-seven retired. The final score was 4–0.

The game was played at Yankee Stadium I in New York. David Wells struck out 11. The announced attendance was 49,820. The game took 2h 40m. It was a day game under cloudy skies, at 59 degrees.

It is the twelfth of 21 perfect games the archive records between 1904 and 2023. It was the only one of David Wells's career. It was the only no-hitter thrown in the major leagues that season. LaTroy Hawkins took the loss for the Minnesota Twins. The Minnesota Twins used three pitchers of their own. Tim McClelland umpired behind the plate.