By that time, most spectators in Charlotte Sports Park were so mesmerized by the fireworks put forth by the Rays' offense -- 19 runs on 23 hits -- that the silence from the Twins' bats went largely unnoticed.
Whispers of a possible perfect game began to move around the park by the time Danny Farquhar took the mound in the sixth.
"It was probably two outs into my first inning when I realized we had a perfect game," Farquhar said. "I'm like, 'Wow, we have a lot of points, and they have zero points. I'm going to try and not mess this up.