The No Hitter

I must say that on June 1st, 2012. Johan Santana was meant to pitch the elusive no hitter. It was meant to be. The umpire had to have called "Foul ball" and  Mike Baxter had made an incredible catch. The stars were aligned and it was destiny. It's still surreal after two weeks since that day. Whenever I watch a no-hitter or a close no-hitter, I anticipate and always get disappointed when the ball drops or some fielder misses by a foot or something. That night, I was jittery, I felt the nerves that channeled through Johan and I was shaking. I didn't give up hope and I had faith that it was possible and when the last strike struck, I was simply amazed and in disbelief. It has happened.The Cards may complain about Beltran's "hit" and that it was fair (yes, videofootage shows it hit the chalk up third base...), but look at it this way, they took a possible World Series from us in 2006 and that hurts more than a no hitter. The game of baseball is not perfect though the pun here is that it's a perfect game that was played. Point taken. A team cannot get every call right. There can be only so much video footage of every single play but why go through the trouble, it's really just a game.  Yes, it ruins records or someone's reputation? But then again, the other day, RA Dickey "had a no hitter" but  MLB did not think so. It just goes to show you that, in one way or another, it's karma, we had a no hitter that was considered tainted, but when Dickey had a no hitter, DWright didn't get an error on the play but rather it was counted as a hit. Thus, the game goes full circle. Not that one game impacts another game but calls go one way and calls go another way.
-Angela