If you’re not a baseball fan, you may not realize what you just missed.
On Saturday, Sept. 10, Dodgers left-hander Rich Hill threw seven perfect innings against the Miami Marlins—no hits, no walks, no men on base—and was six outs away from something that’s been done only 23 times in baseball history.
The perfect game. There’s been only one in the history of the Dodgers franchise: Sandy Koufax — Sept. 9, 1965.
But you missed a perfect game, we all did, because Rich Hill’s shot at baseball immortality was ended by Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, who made a wise and cautious decision to prevent a recurrence of the blistered finger that had recently sidelined the pitcher for several weeks.