Needless to say, AZ SnakePit are a good deal less impressed by the way this contest finished:
AZ SnakePit: Diamondbacks 4, Dodgers 5: [. . .]
Congratulations, Diamondbacks. You managed to do something almost that never happens. From what I can find out, this was only the thirteenth walk-off balk over the time for which we have full play-by-play accounts, starting in 1954. To put that into context, over the same period, there have been fourteen perfect games, starting with Don Larsen’s in the 1956 World Series, and ending with Roy Halladay’s last week. So, we got to see something ever rarer than a perfect game. With perfect irony, the batter who got to trot home the last time it happened was… Kelly Johnson, playing for the Braves in September 2008.
Johnson, of course, committed the two-run error in the eighth inning, which allowed the Dodgers to tie the game.
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