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What: “Unhittable: No-Hitters, Perfect Games and Near Misses” videotape and DVD

Producers: Major League League Productions (distributed by Q Video)

Price: $14.95 (video), $19.95 (DVD)

If you’re a fan of good pitching, you’ll love “Unhittable,” which hit the market Tuesday. As you might expect, Sandy Koufax and Nolan Ryan are a big part of it. So is the New York Yankees’ Don Larsen, who pitched a perfect game in the 1956 World Series.

With the DVD, you get 40 minutes of bonus footage, featuring the final three outs of some no-hitters over the last three decades, including those thrown by Tom Seaver, Bret Saberhagen, Dwight Gooden, Al Leiter, Kevin Brown, Ramon Martinez, Eric Milton, Hideo Nomo and Ryan. The DVD also features a behind-the-scenes segment on Ryan’s workouts.

On the video and DVD, you’ll hear Vin Scully’s famous call of Koufax’s perfect game on Sept. 9, 1965: “It is 9:46 p.m., 2 and 2 to Harvey Kuenn. One strike away. Sandy into his windup, here’s the pitch, swung on and missed, a perfect game.”

Jeff Torborg, who caught that game, says Koufax at the start didn’t have good stuff. “But by the end of the game, he almost pitched my arm out of the socket,” Torborg says.

Torborg, later with the Angels, also caught the first of Ryan’s seven no-hitters.

Each of Ryan’s no-hitters is chronicled, beginning with his first one of May 15, 1973 and concluding with the seventh on May 15, 1991. His pitched his first four, all with the Angels, within a two-year span. He threw his record-tying fourth on June 1, 1975. The fifth, which broke Koufax’s record of four, came on Sept. 26, 1981. Ryan was pitching for Houston against the Dodgers.