LOS ANGELES -- Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw woke up on Thursday morning and did what baseball fans throughout the country did when they watched him get pulled from a perfect game the previous afternoon -- he wondered what could have been.
"But at the end of the day, in the moment, it felt like the right decision," Kershaw said. "I can't go back now."
Kershaw was pulled with only six outs remaining in what was trending towards the first perfect game of his illustrious career. He had thrown only 80 pitches, and had recorded 13 strikeouts, by the time he made quick work of the Minnesota Twins in the bottom of the seventh.