As for losing a perfect game with a walk-off HR with two outs in the 9th, if it didn’t happen to Dave Stieb, it won’t happen to anyone.
Have any of you read The Great American Novel by Phillip Roth? One of the characters is Lefty Grove-type pitcher who struck out, on three pitches, the first 26 batters in the game, and started the 27th batter with two strikes, and then threw a strike down the middle for a “perfect perfect game,” but the ump said he was out of position and made him pitch again, and . . . well, I won’t ruin it for you.
BTW, if you haven’t read Phillip Roth’s The Great American Novel, I highly recommend it.
That 27 strike thing sounds like the plot of some awful movie where Brendan Frasier can throw 150 MPH until he stops hating his parents or something.
I should read more.