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April 15, 2021
Carlos Rodón was one slider away from perfection.
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Rodón, though, wasn't too broken up about it.
"All you can do is laugh about it. It wasn’t meant to be," he said after the game. "… I’d have let it hit me, too."
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Well, stand there and get hit is exactly what Perez did, and the Cleveland catcher got some criticism for not making an effort to get out of the way.
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