As he is prone to do from time to time, Texas Rangers starting pitcher Yu Darvish found himself in pursuit of a perfect game on Friday night against the Boston Red Sox. Untouched going into the seventh inning, Darvish looked to have lost his perfect game and no-hitter when David Ortiz sent a bloop base hit into right field.
But then he didn’t, because the play was ruled an error on right fielder Alex Rios. The ruling was immediately worthy of reaction because it is the type of play that is always ruled a hit without so much as a second thought.
Predictably, those who were following the game on Twitter reacted to the questionable ruling from the official scorer.
that was an error and a hot dog is a sandwich
— Xraig (@cdgoldstein) May 10, 2014
Looks like an error to me. Can of corn.
— Eno Sarris (@enosarris) May 10, 2014
The entire concept of ball has to touch a glove or a hand to be an error isn't adequate enough
— Jason Collette 🗣️ (@jasoncollette) May 10, 2014
I hope the Sox get a real hit. I don't want to spend the weekend talking about this.
— Joe Sheehan (@joe_sheehan) May 10, 2014
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