Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts acknowledges that his defensive mistake ends Yoshinobu Yamamoto’s bid for a perfect game. In the Saturday game, Betts commits an error in the eighth inning on a ground ball, and that misplay allows a runner to reach base, ending the perfect-game attempt. With the error and the change to the game’s scoring situation, Yamamoto’s run of retirements also comes to a stop. The Athletic reports that the end of the attempt prevents Yamamoto from tying Yusmeiro Petit’s franchise/league record of retiring 46 consecutive batters. Multiple outlets describe Betts’s reaction after the game as he repeatedly emphasizes responsibility for the play, speaking from his locker area. The reports are consistent that the error is central to ending both the perfect-game bid and the longer consecutive-batter retirement streak that Yamamoto was pursuing. No source disputes the timing of the play or Betts’s role in the outcome.