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Originally Posted by squiggs96
Even though it's over, they'd absolutely let him attempt it. There have been 23 perfect games in the history of baseball in almost 400,000 games. So it has been done 23 times in about 800,000 attempts. The odds of him being in the same situation again are really small.
The Houston fans were disgusting after Darvish gave up the hit. I'm fine if you don't want to see your team have a perfect game thrown against them, but to give him middle fingers and taunt the Texas fans is garbage. You still lose 7-0.
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His pitch count ended up being fairly reasonable, so no decision was necessary, but I bet a lot of managers would have pulled him at 120 or so on the first game of the year. Team success should trump individual success.
And the Astros are not really fielding a competitive team in any way, shape or form, so it would be a pretty tainted perfect game at that. Their payroll is about half of the New York Islanders.