Clayton Kershaw isn’t the first pitcher Dave Roberts robbed of a perfect game

Clayton Kershaw didn’t get a shot at finishing a perfect game and this isn’t the first time Dave Roberts has kept a pitcher from trying for one.

Six outs. Just six more outs. That’s all Clayton Kershaw needed to get a perfect game as the Los Angeles Dodgers faced off against the Minnesota Twins on Wednesday.

Kershaw had thrown a very manageable number of pitches and was thriving. There’s an argument to be made for leaving him in the game given that there was a pretty good chance that he could have finished out a perfect game.

But, well, Dave Roberts did the opposite of that. After going 7.0 innings, Kershaw was pulled from the game.

And it made a ton of folks online very upset.

Interestingly enough, this isn’t the first time that Roberts has done something like this. Of course, it’s not like he has a habit of preventing his pitchers from getting a perfect game, but he has actually done this before. According to ESPN Stats and Info, Rich Hill, in 2016, ended up getting pulled from a game against the Marlins.

Los Angeles Dodgers: Dave Roberts pulls Clayton Kershaw before he can throw a perfect game

Because of the nature of a perfect game and how difficult it is to actually throw one, it wasn’t shocking that folks on Twitter had some thoughts on Kershaw not getting the chance to finish this one out.

Roberts ended up angering a ton of people with this decision. Seemingly everyone has some sort of thought that they’d like to share on the matter.

Roberts’ decision was pretty controversial. He’s trying to protect his pitcher, whose arm probably isn’t as robust as it may have been earlier in his career, and that makes a ton of sense for the Dodgers to do this. It’s just still frustrating for many because of just how rare perfect games can be.