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Cougars Bennett Pitches Perfect Game Wednesday, August 23rd , 1972 With the final, flawless out recorded, the New Orleans Cougars piled onto Steven Bennett at the center of the New Orleans Grounds diamond. Bennett joined baseball's most hallowed club today, completing a perfect game against the Halifax Explosions. The 20-year-old left-hander kept the Halifax offense guessing all day long and with some help from the defenders behind him, etched his name into the record books with the 11-0 shutout. "His breaking pitches had more movement than I've ever seen from Steven," New Orleans manager Nick Fleming said in the postgame interview. "He made everyone's job easy today. He just saw a target and he hit it. Simple as that." For the game, Bennett retired all 27 batters he faced and fanned 9 of them. He walked none and nobody got on base. To date this season, Bennett has registered 13 starts, 5-5 won-lost mark, 3.39 ERA, 93 IP, 118 strikeouts and 22 walks. Opposing teams have hit .182 against him. |
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