{"id":1212,"date":"2013-04-02T15:01:15","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T19:01:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/02\/the-chances-of-a-perfect-game\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T20:07:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T01:07:58","slug":"the-chances-of-a-perfect-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/the-chances-of-a-perfect-game\/","title":{"rendered":"The chances of a perfect game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is one statistic from the 2012 Major League Baseball season that may be difficult to improve upon in 2013: the number of perfect games pitched.\u00a0 Of all the major league games played since 1900, a mere 21 of them have been perfect games. But three of them occurred during the 2012 season.\u00a0 What are the chances you\u2019ll see three more in a single season?\u00a0 After some serious calculations, Furman math professors John Harris and Kevin Hutson, and Davidson College professor Tim Chartier, say about 1.7 percent.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/tim-chartier\/majorly-perfect-baseball_b_2971936.html?utm_hp_ref=science\">Read more in the Huffington Post<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is one statistic from the 2012 Major League Baseball season that may be difficult to improve upon in 2013: the number of perfect games pitched.\u00a0 Of all the major league games played since 1900, a mere 21 of them have been perfect games. But three of them occurred during the 2012 season.\u00a0 What are the chances you\u2019ll see three more in a single season?\u00a0 After some serious calculations, Furman math professors John Harris and Kevin Hutson, and Davidson College professor Tim Chartier, say about 1.7 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-mathematics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}