BOISE, Idaho — This Day In Sports…June 3, 1995, 30 years ago today:

Montreal Expos ace Pedro Martinez has a perfect game broken up in the 10th inning when the San Diego’s Bip Roberts leads off with a double. Martinez had a chance to make history with baseball’s first extra-innings perfect game, but Roberts’ shot into right field was clean. “It was a lucky hit to a lucky spot,” Roberts told reporters after the game. (Martinez and the Expos were able to win the game 1-0.) The future Hall of Famer was only in his third full season in the majors—he’d go on to win 219 career games against just 100 losses in 18 seasons.

The only other pitcher ever to go into extra innings with a perfect game was Pittsburgh’s Harvey Haddix in 1959. Haddix made it through 12 innings against the Milwaukee Braves

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