Logan Webb<\/a>, began the afternoon by retiring the first 15 batters and totaling eight strikeouts. In his last outing against the Cincinnati Reds, Ray threw four no-hit innings with four strikeouts but walked four batters.<\/p>\n\u201cI felt really good with my slider,\u201d Ray said. \u201cI felt like I made some big strides with it today. I felt like I could throw it in any count. It just felt normal again, which is great. Honestly, the biggest thing is I wasn\u2019t having to think about anything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Before the thought of a perfect game began to form, infielder Christian Koss preserved the perfecto in the top of the third inning with an incredibly difficult play. With one out, the Brewers\u2019 Blake Perkins sent a pop-up into shallow right field. Koss tracked the ball down while running backward, went into a slide and reached out for the ball. The ball popped out of his glove, but Koss stayed with the play to make the catch.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was awesome because of how he just turned,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cHe turned like a madman and went. There was no drifting. You always hear coaches yell from the dugout, \u2018Don\u2019t drift.\u2019 He turned and ran full speed. Then, the SportsCenter part to it was fun to see.\u201d<\/p>\n
Following Ray\u2019s departure, Seymour handled the sixth inning, Beck recorded the next five outs and Gage retired the lone batter he faced to finish off the eighth. After Santos allowed the two-out walk and double, the Opening Day hopeful struck out Jos\u00e9 Anderson swinging.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo me, Santos just needs reps,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cHe had a family deal that he takes care of. Then, in general, experience-wise, if you look where he\u2019s come from over the last 12 months, he just needs to get out there.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. \u2014 The announced attendance of 9,418 on Sunday afternoon at Scottsdale Stadium rose to its feet,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625618,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2406],"tags":[5,39,5775,1165,4332,4333,853,774,57,3224,4331,4,66,185],"class_list":{"0":"post-625617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-dodgers","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers","10":"tag-inside-sports","11":"tag-la","12":"tag-la-dodgers","13":"tag-ladodgers","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles","16":"tag-los-angeles-dodgers","17":"tag-losangeles","18":"tag-losangelesdodgers","19":"tag-mlb","20":"tag-san-francisco-giants","21":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116235889120888199","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}