More impressive: Quadruple Double or Perfect Game?

[Master Shake]

LOL "A perfect game should be the batter never hitting the ball unless he hits it foul"

These guys aren't robots from the year 3000, it's pretty dame hard to pitch and to put it by every batter on a Major league team is fucking hard. Even the Padres, who suck, have a guy who will take you yard no problem.

I think a perfect game is more impressive. 27 Ks on 81 pitches like authentq pointed out is incredible. You think an average at bat goes at least 3-4 pitches deep. Don't get me wrong, a quad-double is hard to get, you gotta dominate the game completely that one, but it's easier to get a rebound, a steal and even block than it is to put a curve, fast, or even change up behind a good above average .300 hitter.

 

[rocketeer]

Quadruple def. Much less frequent.

there definitely have been more perfect games than quadruple doubles but mlb has been around longer than the nba and with 162 regular reason games instead of the 82 in basketball i'm not sure you can really say the perfect games really happen more frequently.

 

[BrianFromWA]

blocks and steals weren't even tallied until something like 1971, right? I mean, who's to say that Oscar Robertson didn't have a game or two or 10 where he got 10 steals or blocks the year he AVERAGED a triple-double? Or that Wilt Chamberlain never had 10 blocks in a game in 1968 when he led the league in reb and assists?

 

[Denny Crane]

Perfect Game, no doubt in my mind.

Triple-doubles aren't that rare, and it's not that big a deal to get hot at a 4th category during one of those games. You expect the guy to be really good at 3 of the 4 categories and have a unconscious type of game at the 4th.

No hitters are rare enough that to have the extra luck of the ball bouncing the right way to get the perfecto doesn't make the whole thing (no hitter -> perfect game) luck.

 

[DaRizzle]

Since the NBA started keeping track(1973-74), a player has recorded at least 10 blocks in a game 132 times. In the same span, a player has recorded 10 steals in a game only 19 times, and four of those were by Alvin Robertson, the only player to reach the quad with steals.

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