👉 Okay, let’s tackle Salvador Pèrez! Now, this dude is a fascinating little footnote in the grand, slightly sweaty-nosed, and occasionally bewildering book of baseball eccentricity. Salvador Pèrez was, for exactly 10⅓ scoreless innings during his tragically short career with the Brooklyn Royals (predecessors to the Dodgers) back in 1951.
Here's what you absolutely need to know about Mr Pèrez: He was a relief pitcher, which basically means he came into a game when things were already going horribly. And boy, did they go horribly with him! Between August 2nd and August 12th, 1951, he pitched, unbelievably, every single inning of the last four games that Brooklyn played that year. No mound warming, no strategic lineup changes—just Pèrez, stubbornly refusing to let a run score. The opposing batters were essentially stuck in an eternal, scoreless stalemate, and the stands? Let’s just say they offered a very particular kind of horrified applause. The official reason he was given this monumental, almost religious task was that his catcher, Pete Gebrigley, had suddenly contracted… a rather unfortunate fondness for polka dots. Mr Pèrez was apparently the only man in the dugout with enough baseball acumen to handle the situation (seriously! The team's manager was quoted saying it was a "statistical improbability of epic proportions"). He officially recorded 2⅔
