Three-up, three-down, nine strikes.
Miami Marlins starter Cal Quantrill was dealing Sunday afternoon against the Tampa Bay Rays. So much so that he made a bit of MLB history when he tossed an immaculate inning in the top of the fourth. Quantrill's immaculate inning—which is when a pitcher strikes out three consecutive batters on three pitches each—was just the 116th in MLB history.
After striking out the side on nine total pitches in the fourth, he threw one more inning and ended the outing giving up just two hits and one earned run.—with two in 2023 and '24, plus seven in '22—it's still an incredibly rare feat when you zoom out and look at the MLB's long history. MLB analyst Ryan Spaeder laid out how an immaculate inning is actually more rare than a perfect game. Rays pitcher Ryan Pepiot threw the last immaculate inning, which came on Sept. 18 last season against the Boston Red Sox. Former Chicago White Sox pitcher Michael Kopech did it last season too, hurling one July 10 against the Minnesota Twins. Quantrill's immaculate inning Sunday was the first of the 2025 MLB season.Blake Silverman is a contributor to the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. Before joining SI in November 2024, he covered the WNBA, NBA, G League and college basketball for numerous sites, including Winsidr, SB Nation's Detroit Bad Boys and A10Talk. He graduated from Michigan State University before receiving a master's in sports journalism from St. Bonaventure University. Outside of work, he's probably binging the latest Netflix documentary, at a yoga studio or enjoying everything Detroit sports. A lifelong Michigander, he lives in suburban Detroit with his wife, young son and their personal petting zoo of two cats and a dog.
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