Gregor Blanco is a bitch, I think. Maybe not, though.

By: Tom Alexander

LOS ANGELES–Hiroki Kuroda was dealing last night. I mean, dealing. As you surely know by now, he ended up spinning a one-hit complete game shutout of the Braves. The one hit was by Mark Teixeira, leading off the 8th inning, and it was a double. That was it for the Braves on this night.

Ah, but there was a little drama earlier. Gregor Blanco dropped down a nifty bunt in the top of the 7th inning to try and break up the perfect game. Save a great play by Blake Dewitt (I mean a truly big time defensive play, the sort of play that keeps a guy like Andy Laroche on the bench for another few weeks), you’d be hearing a lot more about Gregor Blanco today.

When I first saw it, I was outraged, but I attribute this mostly to my undying (and, quizzically, still blossoming) love for Hiroki Kuroda. Given a day, I’m not so sure it’s a bitch move. I do know that you won’t see veterans pulling stuff like that. It’s always the young guys who are trying to make something like that happen.

I guess at the end of the day, I sort of feel like if you are going to get a no-hitter or a perfect game dropped on you, then you just have to sort of wear it. It happens to everyone. But, in my opinion, it’s worse to have a perfect game dropped on you than to have a one-hitter where you ruined some guys lifelong dream by dropping a bunt down the line when you were down by three runs.

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Tom Alexander founded the Chicago Sports Review in 2003, and currently serves the publication as its co-publisher. Alexander's media career has spanned a variety of interests, including newspaper reporting with the Times of Northwest Indiana, online reporting with ePrairie.com, and a two-plus year stint as a professor in Columbia College Chicago's journalism department. Outside of journalism, Alexander works to redevelop communities that have been struck by natural disasters. Alexander, a 2000 graduate of the University of Chicago, currently lives with his wife Tiffany and their black lab mix, Johnny Cash, in Arlington, Va.

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