Let's celebrate Ryan Pressly’s perfect game.
In his last eight appearances, Ryan Pressly has retired 27 straight batters. If he did that in a single game, it would go down in history as a perfect game.
Of those 27 batters, he struck out 17. Fourteen of those went down swinging. The most strikeouts ever recorded in a (mere) no-hitter is 17, done by Nolan Ryan and Max Scherzer. The most strikeouts in a perfect game is 14, also accomplished twice, first by Sandy Koufax and then Matt Cain (against the Astros in 2012*)
Of course, most would argue it is harder to throw nine perfect innings in one game than nine perfect innings in eight, as Pressly has done.