After Rich Hill's foiled effort Sandy Koufax is still the only Dodger to have pitched a perfect game

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On Wednesday, August 23, 2017, Dodger pitcher Rich Hill almost joined the elite perfect-game club when he took his flawless pitching performance into bottom of the ninth inning against the Pittsburgh Pirates, only to see a teammate commit an error which allowed a Pirate to reach first base. Hill got out of the inning without allowing any more base runners. As disappointing as the broken perfect game may have felt to Hill, he no doubt felt worse when, in the bottom of the tenth inning, Pittsburgh's Josh Harrison broke the no-hitter by getting just enough of a Hill pitch to send the ball over the outfield wall, thereby becoming the first batter in MLB history to end an extra-innings no-hit game with a walk-off homer. When all was said and done, the current best team in baseball lost to a floundering Pittsburgh team, and Sandy Koufax is still the only pitcher in Dodger history to have pitched a perfect game.