Takin' a T/O With BT: CC's Near No-Hitters Sours Ned Yost

Look back on all the great rants in sports, and most of them involve a baseball manager.

At some point along the line during a game, coaches will always become angry. Whether it's a call that doesn't go their way, their players having an off day, or just some inexplicable display of power and domination by the opposing team, chances are you'll have at least one angry coach per game.

At least.

And after yesterday's game between the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Milwaukee Brewers, you, yet again, had a manager who was only slightly perturbed at the outcome of game.

In an amusing twist of events though, Yost wasn't mad at the umpires...he was mad at the scorekeeper. How often does that happen?

By now I'm positive most have seen the highlights from what happened in Pittsburgh on Sunday, but if you still haven't, I guess we'll get into it.

Just like every single one of his starts in the National League this season, CC Sabathia was on yesterday afternoon. Through four innings, the former-Indian had no-hit the Pirates, and somewhere Tim McCarver and Jamie Campbell were texting back and forth to each other, breaking the Baseball Gods' laws and actually mentioning what CC was in the midst of accomplishing.

In to the box steps Andy LaRoche. You know, the guy Pittsburgh got in the Bay-Ramirez-Four prospects to the Pirates trade? LaRoche, batting a robust .165 this season, nubs a hit down the third base line, which the burly Sabathia runs in to field.

As he attempts to barehand the ball, Sabathia bobbles it, and it falls to the ground.

The scorekeeper for the game counted it as a hit. No-hitter over, and CC's chances at history were dashed.

It didn't stop him however, as Sabathia continued to deal over the course of the afternoon, shutting out the Pirates in a 7-0 Brewers win.

Sabathia would strike out 11, walk three, and allow only that one hit over the course of the afternoon.

Those that talked to Sabathia after the game though, were surprised that he was cool, calm, and completely fine with the outcome of the afternoon.

His manger, Ned Yost, wasn't.

Yost was outraged that baseball had been cheated of a "beautiful no-hitter." He called the outcome a "joke" and that "CC was cheated from a no-hitter," while the hit was "put up before LaRoche touched the bag."

Yost even went so far as to comment on how it affected him. Yost had never managed a pitcher to a no-hitter before, and the fact his chance was taken away had him frothing at the mouth. This is something he wants to be able to tell his grandkids about, and remember for the rest of his career.

To me that was a little far—whenever a pitcher throws a no-hitter or a perfect game, the manager gives all the credit to the pitcher. Apparently, when a no-hitter is taken away, Yost is allowed to go off on how this affects him personally.

Now, the Brewers are appealing to Major League Baseball, asking the call to be reviewed for arguments sake, and to see if result of the play can be changed to an error.

I'm not going to comment as to whether this was an error or an infield hit, but do the Brewers really want to go down in history as the first team have a retroactively awarded no-hitter?

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