Last week I saw Andy Pettitte throw six and two-thirds innings of perfect baseball at against the Orioles at Camden Yards. With two outs in the bottom of the seventh, Adam Jones hit a ground ball to third. Alex Rodriguez was getting the night off, and his replacement at the hot corner, Jerry Hairston, booted it. Having grown up an Orioles fan and somewhere along the way developing into a Yankee-hater, one might think I would have been rooting for the Birds to end Pettitte’s bid for perfection; however, this was not so. As a fan of the game, I wanted to witness history. Sure; I would have preferred seeing an Oriole pitcher throw a perfecto (though even a shutout by one of this year’s starters would have been historic), but I can’t expect miracles.
