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Joan Adon returned to the majors with a bid for a perfect game which he carried through 6 23 innings, only to give up three hits and three runs before he got the third out, but the recently-turned 25-year-old starter told reporters he wasn’t sure how much more he’d had left if the potentially historic outing had actually continued.

“I don’t know what would’ve happened, because in that sixth inning, I started cramping,” Adon said, as quoted on MASNsports.com.

“That’s when I started feeling it. But no one wants to come out of a perfect game.