Ryu pitches perfect 7 as Dodgers hold off Reds
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LOS Angeles pitcher Ryu Hyun-jin threw seven perfect innings on Monday to help set a club record and power the Dodgers to a 4-3 win over the Cincinnati Reds.
The 27-year-old South Korean left-hander retired the first 21 Reds batters he faced before Todd Frazier doubled down the left-field line to break up the perfect game and no-hit bid.
Ryu improved to 5-2 on the season, throwing 66 of his 95 pitches for strikes. He struck out seven batters without a walk and surrendered three runs over 7 1/3 innings.
“Unbelievable through seven,” Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said of Ryu.
Ryu’s winning effort, coming one day after teammate Josh Beckett threw the first no-hitter of the Major League Baseball season, gave the Dodgers’ pitchers 17 hitless innings in a row, shattering the old team record of 12 from 1976.
A third-inning error by Reds first baseman Frazier allowed Dodgers catcher Drew Butera to score from second base to give Los Angeles a 1-0 lead and the scored stayed there until Ryu helped his cause in the bottom of the seventh inning. Ryu, who helped South Korea win Olympic gold at Beijing in 2008, chopped a ground ball to Cincinnati shortstop Zack Cozart, who fumbled the grip and allowed a run to score on the error.
Carl Crawford followed with a two-run double to give the Dodgers a 4-0 lead.
But Ryu saw the perfection bid slip away on Frazier’s hit.
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