On Wednesday night, Los Angeles Dodgers southpaw Rich Hill threw eight perfect innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates (LAD-PIT GameTracker). Then third baseman Logan Forsythe committed an error to lead off the bottom of the ninth, dashing Hill's perfect aspirations and rendering Chase Utley's outstanding catch in the previous inning irrelevant:
The kicker, of course, was that Hill was a long shot to complete a perfect game even without Forsythe's error. That's because the Dodgers and Pirates were tied at zero entering the bottom of the ninth and required extra innings to decide a winner.