Jake Lamb sensed the mood in the dugout, and he figured someone might as well acknowledge what was happening and say what everyone was thinking. So when the bottom of the sixth inning began, he turned to a teammate and stated the obvious.
“I was kind of just joking around like, ‘Hey, I think he’s got a perfect game going,’” Lamb said, referring to Marlins right-hander Jose Fernandez. “It’s funny how baseball works.”
What happened after that was further proof that baseball often times does not make a whole lot of sense. After Fernandez had set down the first 17 batters he’d faced, he proceeded to serve up Michael Bourn’s first home run in nearly two years, the first of five consecutive hits the Diamondbacks would record in the sixth inning of a game they’d go on to win 5-3 on Saturday night.