Dodgers Blow Perfect Game, Keep Yusmeiro Petit's Legacy Alive

The Los Angeles Dodgers may seem like they're on top of the world, but their blow to Yoshinobu Yamamoto's perfect game helped preserve a record that was looking like it could soon be history.

Former SF Giants pitcher Yusmeiro Petit's record for consecutive batters retired, set back in 2014, now remains intact.

Yamamoto took a perfect game into the eighth inning on Saturday against the Chicago White Sox.

Shortstop Mookie Betts booted a ball and was charged with an error with two outs in the eighth, ending Yamamoto's streak of consecutive batters retired at 45.

That's one shy of the 46 batters Petit retired in a row.

Petit was a valuable player for the San Francisco Giants in those years, including a performance for the ages in the NLDS against the Washington Nationals.

Yusmeiro Petit was an unsung hero in that game, as most people remember Brandon Belt's walk-off homer.

Petit pitched six shutout innings in the 18-inning Game 2 and three scoreless innings in Games 4 of the NLCS and World Series that season.

He was a reliable player, especially in big games, and his legacy continues to be felt, even years after retirement.

Now, the Dodgers and their fans might be looking for ways to take down their next record, and the rest of the league will be watching, knowing that even in the current state of the Dodgers they can be beaten. Petit's record remains untarnished.

The team is struggling, but fans still have a reason to cheer and the chance to see their record break may not be too far away. But Petit's record remains the standard.

That's what it has come to for us Giants fans. The team is so bad that we have to cheer for the Dodgers to not throw perfect games or break a decade-old record.