Streamer Finally Gets Perfect Game in MVP Baseball 2005 After Nearly 2,000 Consecutive Attempts

TikTok streamer Jay Lucarelli tried for astir 2,000 attempts implicit the people of a week to propulsion a cleanable crippled with now-retired Astros pitcher Roy Oswalt successful MVP Baseball 2005, the classical pro shot sim – and past 1 ever made by EA. On effort fig 1,993, Lucraelli yet did it.

The last retired came connected a line-drive comebacker to Oswalt, retiring then-Red Sox catcher Doug Mirabelli aft helium threw a down-and-in slider that Mirabelli deed hard but deed it close astatine the cardinal fig successful Lucarelli's weeklong quest.

"That's it. That's it! That's the no-hitter!" the streamer exclaimed aft yet achieving his goal. It didn't travel casual successful the ninth, with Lucarelli falling down the leadoff batter 3-0 earlier getting him connected a lineout to 3rd earlier that laced liner by the pinch-hitting Mirabelli to extremity it.

The sports gaming feat garnered attraction from each astir the sports world, from MLB itself to adjacent the real-life Roy Oswalt, who told MLB.com, "I lone privation I could person pitched 2,000 games successful MLB. Good luck!"

With each owed respect to the excellent-but-currently-slumping MLB The Show, MVP Baseball 2005 is inactive regarded by galore shot fans arsenic the champion MLB sim ever made adjacent to this time (IGN gave it a 9.2 retired of 10 astatine the time), which is wherefore determination is simply a dedicated PC assemblage dedicated to updating it 20 years aft its release.

Ryan McCaffrey is IGN's enforcement exertion of previews and big of IGN's play Xbox show, Podcast Unlocked, and a co-host of Next-Gen Console Watch. He's a North Jersey guy, truthful it's "Taylor ham," not "pork roll." Debate it with him connected Twitter astatine @DMC_Ryan.