Unwritten rules in baseball are usually absurd. You should not be able to plunk someone with a fastball just because they looked at the pitcher the wrong way. God forbid someone flips a bat.
But really? Breaking up a perfect game on a bunt?
Seattle Mariners’ Jarrod Dyson ended Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander’s bid for perfection Wednesday in the sixth inning by laying down a bunt. Trailing 4-0 at the time, the Mariners actually came back and won the game, 7-5.
Justin Verlander’s perfect game broken up in the sixth by a Jarrod Dyson bunt. pic.twitter.com/oTHmmN48KY
— Brad Galli (@BradGalli) June 22, 2017
To Verlander’s credit, he didn’t retaliate and he shouldn’t have either. Dyson did what he had to do to rally some offense and keep his team from feeling discouraged.
Still, the chances for a perfect game are so rare that it feels a little bit cheap to see it ruined by something as anti-climatic as a bunt.
Oh, well. Life goes on.
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