page_title: Tom Browning
section_title: Perfect game
hierarchical_section_title: Tom Browning / Major League Baseball career / Early career / Perfect game
caption_attribution_description: English: A ticket for a September 16, 1988 Major League Baseball game featuring the Los Angeles Dodgers versus the Cincinnati Reds at Riverfront Staidum. Reds pitcher Tom Browning pitched a perfect game in this match, marking the 12th perfect game in Major League Baseball history.
context_page_description: Thomas Leo Browning is a former Major League Baseball left-handed pitcher. During a 12-year baseball career, he pitched for the Cincinnati Reds and the Kansas City Royals. He is also co-author of Tom Browning's Tales from the Reds Dugout.
  Browning pitched the twelfth perfect game in baseball history on September 16, 1988 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. He also won the World Series with the Reds in 1990.
context_section_description: On September 16, 1988, Browning pitched the 12th perfect game in baseball history. In a 1–0 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Riverfront Stadium, Browning threw 70 of 102 pitches for strikes and did not run the count to three balls on a single batter. The first left-hander to pitch a perfect game since Sandy Koufax's perfect game in 1965, Browning remains the only Reds player to pitch a perfect game. Three months earlier, on June 6, 1988, Browning had a bid for a no-hitter broken up by Tony Gwynn, who singled with one out in the ninth.
  Browning just missed becoming the first pitcher to hurl two perfect games, taking another bid into the ninth on July 4, 1989, against the Philadelphia Phillies at Veterans Stadium; a lead-off double by Dickie Thon broke up this attempt. After his 1988 perfect game, Reds owner Marge Schott put a clause in his contract that stated his wife, Debbie, would receive a $300,000 bonus if he pitched another perfect game in 1989; the National League office eventually nixed the clause.
caption: A ticket from Browning's perfect game.
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