Carlos Rodón loses perfect game on a toe ball but gets no hitter, a breakdown

third overall pick in 2014

two major arm surgeries shoulder and

then tommy john the white sox

non-tendered them just

said goodbye last winter and then he

re-signed with him anyway because he

said

he's been part of this rebuilding

process and this is the team he wants to

win with and he's excited that they're

good

he only pitched 42 innings since 2018

and he went into the ninth inning

with a perfect game look at the

strikeouts he didn't have a single

strikeout

in the first three innings after five

innings he only had two

and then they started coming a little

more at the end because his velocity

ramped up i like looking at the pitch

mix we got

fastball slider change up curveball a

lot of fastballs

good amount of sliders those ticked up

in the last two innings a lot change-ups

and then

only three curveballs the entire game

and i was like when did those come

and they were all first pitch get me

over

curveballs let me just get 0-1 on this

dude real quick then show him something

he hasn't seen before

this is the cool part the miles per hour

on the fastball

ticked up the entire the game started in

the low 90s

ended in the high 90s he said because

the white sox had such a big lead

he didn't need to throw and no one ever

got on base he didn't have to like tax

his arm so he could just get out sit in

low 90s and then he ramped it up towards

the end when the pressure was on

that's pretty badass so let's go to the

top

of the ninth inning naylor's up he goes

down a one

he goes down oh two and then a little

like tapper

race to first base jose abreu with the

stretch

every perfect game no hitter has a crazy

play

and that was this one the stretch by

abrao and road to own

or don just says you're all right he's

like yeah look at this he just

beat him if naylor's right hand hits

first he's safe if he doesn't slide he's

probably safe

abreu goes all out to make the play at

this time it's a perfect game

that was to keep the perfect game intact

umpire gets the call right

which is good news they replay it anyway

and they say no we got it right we're

the best

never doubt our replay next batter

perez is up 02 again both fastballs he

goes third fastball he's pumping 98

then he's gonna drop a back foot slider

and oh no

hits him right in the toe and look at

him he's just laughing it off

chuckling a little bit it hit him

it got him damn and then he goes to prez

like hey

it gets you man he's like yeah come on

perez will say

i'll show you in a second we'll press

this but look just on the

toe damn perfect back foot slider here's

what they had to say about it

to be honest i i really didn't think he

had a perfect game until

i got hit i thought he had a no hitter

going on but i really didn't think he

had a perfect game so uh

it's hard man you know i'm not gonna try

to stand there and take

you know get hit you know especially

after a night like tonight

that it was cold you know that's just

part of the game it was just one of

those where like you think back foot but

obviously you don't want to put it on

his back foot

he did the right thing he stayed in

there he said i'm gonna let it hit me

you're getting the perfect game and

i would do the same thing if i was

hitting you gotta earn it i was just

like hey that gets you

and he was like yeah i got me so i was

just like that was that was the only

exchange it wasn't nothing like

nothing mean at all next batter he goes

back foot slider again

and almost hits another guy gives him

happy feet he starts dancing around a

little bit

1-0 goes fastball up top 1-1

fastball up top again 1-2 slider in the

zone to punch him

and it looks like the batter thought

that was going to be another back foot

slider because you see his right foot

dance away like it was going to drop

down there and then it was in the zone

he looks at him and says come on

man trying to impress people here making

me look

stupid next batter up to keep the no

hitter intact

0-1 outside with the changeup

and then comes back 97 fastball 1-2

one strike away luplow lays off that one

good job by him fouls off that one i

think this is oh okay he takes that one

again

three and two is the count big foul ball

down the left field

left side on a slider now luplos trying

to adjust his eyes oh my god

scary game on the line full count does

he walk him does he strike him out

it's put in play third baseman's got it

shortstop

is celebrating early and the no hitter

stays now it's a big goal celebration

moncado with the big hug

i mean it was a cold night and rodon's

going

no shirt no undershirt buttons open now

he's getting water all over him think he

cares

not one bit your min mercedes

sprints out big boy moving he had a big

home run in this game

jumps up on the catcher just good times

all around i like some of the

personal little celebrations we're gonna

see him in the catcher first time

that they ever worked together in a

major league game and they combined for

a no-hitter you hear them both

talking about it right here i've never

caught a no-hitter before

that was the most incredible thing that

i've ever been a part of behind the

plate

that was good we were on the same page i

i don't think i shook at all i just

where we put down i was throwing

everything was working no matter what i

put down

uh he was putting it where i wanted to

he definitely didn't shake off from

like the third or fourth on it's pretty

cool pretty cool

that's how it goes the first time he

worked together then we got biggle

bear hug from fellow pitcher lucas

giolito who has a podcast on the jomboy

media network

ad and uh look at this white sox went

eight years without a no-hitter and now

lucas gilito and

now lucas giolito and carlos rodon have

thrown them in back-to-back years

and we're just at april 14th white sox

now have 20 in franchise history

so a big old hug from two dudes who have

thrown no hitters for the white sox

gotta love that

giolito gives them a i mean just a nice

hug lucas

a little head nod little proud wrinkles

around the eyes and then he goes for his

post-game interview and just

the the most cavalier and chill

welcome to a post-game interview for a

guy who just threw a no-hitter

what's up man what's up man what's up

man

congratulations what just happened

where's your mind right now carlos

uh on a toe ball

on a toe ball toe hitter that's what

we're calling it just the toe hitter

hey if i told you a couple years ago

when you've been dealing with all the

injury stuff

that you're going to throw a no-hitter

what would you have told me take a hike

take a hike pretty good response there

every single thing that he said in his

post-game

interviews were awesome this this

reporter asked what he's going to do

with the ball are you going to give it

to cooper scott

is that what people do i guess yes

i've never thrown a no-hitter before

another question i should ask lucas

i'd say keep the ball if it was me i

think i'd just keep it maybe give it to

mom maybe give it to dad

they also asked him when did he start to

realize that

something special was happening in that

three one count he knew i was throwing a

fastball i knew i was throwing a

fastball you guys probably knew i was

going to fastball

and someone's dog in kentucky knew too

but

uh when that ball was caught and it came

off the bat at like 170 miles an hour

that's kind of where

i started feeling it you need a bunch of

brakes hard hit ball right at someone

that's

going to get you there toe hitter shirts

are on sale at the store and here's the

parting words from carlos rodon

it just feels good to finally sit here

and tell you uh

i dominated today and it was it felt

good

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