Giants' Petit loses perfect game on last strike to D-Backs
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The big takeaway from Yusmeiro Petit's excruciatingly close brush with fame and history was his humility.
When the 28-year-old right-hander fell one strike and less than a foot of outfield grass short of throwing the 24th perfect game in major-league history Friday night, he could have been crushed.
He should have been crushed when pinch-hitter Eric Chavez ended Petit's bid with two outs in the ninth by driving a 3-2 pitch into right field, a sinking liner that Hunter Pence lunged with all deliberate effort to catch, only to trap it.
Instead, the Giants' fill-in starter calmly retook the mound as the air deflated out of AT&T Park, got A.J. Pollock to ground out to end a 3-0 Giants victory over the Diamondbacks, then shot his arms into the air in triumph.
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Pence almost caught it. Petit still got the one-hit shutout. 95 pitches total, 28 batters faced, with 7 strikeouts.