00:00I have a hot take. I think once the Mookie error happened, it was better that he did not get
00:07the
00:07no-hitter there because that would have felt, and now I was not here for the Clayton Kershaw
00:11no-hitter with the Hanley Ramirez error being the only base runner in that game, but to me,
00:17as I was writing between the eighth and the ninth inning after the Mookie thing happened,
00:21it almost was like taking on a disappointing tone. It's like, yeah, he's thrown a no-hitter,
00:30but this could have been, because to me, the difference between a no-hitter and a perfect
00:36game has gotten really vast in the last, whatever, 10, 15 years as no-hitters have become more common.
00:42Now, individual no-hitters, I think, are still obviously very special, but to be that close
00:48to not just a perfect game, but a perfect game in which he could have also set the consecutive
00:53batter's retired in a row record. Had Mookie made that play, he would have tied that
00:59mark, it would have felt like such a, like that would have been one of the most historic
01:06games by a pitcher in MLB history. And so once that happened, and once you had the Mookie
01:12error thing hanging over it, I almost think it was better. Better for who? Just better.
01:18For you? No, I think just better generally. You think Yamamoto liked giving up a hit? No, no.
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