On big day for bats, Rays arms nearly perfect

The offensive outburst caused the bid for a perfect game to go unnoticed until later in the game. (Rays)By that time, most spectators in Charlotte Sports Park were so mesmerized by the fireworks put forth by the Rays' offense -- 19 runs on 23 hits -- that the silence from the Twins' bats went largely unnoticed.

Whispers of a possible perfect game began to move around the park by the time Danny Farquhar took the mound in the sixth.

"It was probably two outs into my first inning when I realized we had a perfect game," Farquhar said. "I'm like, 'Wow, we have a lot of points, and they have zero points. I'm going to try and not mess this up.'

"It was weird. That's cool it was a perfect game…