Sentence examples for perfect in the first from inspiring English sources

Washington starter Tim Redding (5-3) was perfect in the first three innings, retiring the first nine Mets.

"We may not be perfect in the first game here, but hopefully we'll build ourselves into a solid squad as we go along," Lippi said.

But nor is it ever as sparkily inventive as the Ray Harryhausen movie that inspired this apparently ongoing series and which was itself far from perfect in the first place.

The Pau line-out, too, was perfect in the first half, but the Sale scrummage - where another charismatic player, Andy Sheridan, is increasingly enjoying himself - tore their opponents to pieces.

"I thought they were near perfect in the first half and, when you're playing tough and strong you deserve the breaks".

We knew there was going to be a decision," Chief Carl Dabadie Jr. told WBRP-FM on May 2. "We were not perfect in the first round of the protests, and we had some things that we needed to correct.

After striking out a career-high 14 against the Mariners, he did not strike out anybody until the fourth inning Monday, and his only perfect inning was the first.

But the best individual performance of the series came from the Reds' Travis Wood, who tossed eight perfect innings in the third game of the series before Carlos Ruiz led off the ninth with a double.

Percival was not perfect in the ninth.

I had to be perfect in the fifth".

Dave Robertson and Boone Logan both gave up home runs in the decisive eighth inning of that game, but on Friday they were perfect in the seventh and eighth.