Shutout

In team sports, a shutout (US) or clean sheet (UK) is a game in which the losing team scores zero points. While possible in most major sports, they are highly improbable in some sports, such as basketball.

For other uses, see Shut Out (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Penalty shootout.

Shutouts are usually seen as a result of effective defensive play even though a weak opposing offense may be as much to blame. Some sports credit individual players, particularly goalkeepers and starting pitchers, with shutouts and keep track of them as statistics; others do not.

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