CLEVELAND — Many of the unwritten rules of baseball can lead to some different viewpoints on situations depending on which dugout you're currently in, and from there, some rising tempers.
In the case of the Guardians and the Arizona Diamondbacks, it was an exchange of words following one of those unwritten rules, and the gray area of interpretation, that led to a bizarre, benches-clearing incident just as the game — a 5-0 Cleveland win — Sunday, Aug. 2 was entering a rain delay.
Guardians starter Gavin Williams entered the sixth inning with a perfect game bid in tact. Diamondbacks center fielder Tim Tawa led off the sixth inning, and during that at-bat attempted to lay down a bunt.
That's where you'll find some differing opinions on whether that violated an unwritten rule in baseball. Some believe that if a pitcher has a no-hitter or a perfect game going, it should be respected, and you have to earn that first hit. Put it in other words: trying to bunt to break up a perfect game bid is seen by some as cheap.
Others, though, see it as simply a team that's normally losing the game at the point trying to add base runners and win the game.

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