During his postgame interview, even Arrieta basically implied that he was surprised they did not score that as a hit. I didn't see it live, but after watching the replay, it could have been scored a hit. In fact, had this not been a no-hitter, I wouldn't have been surprised to see that changed to a hit following the game. As for the bunt, in a 2-0 game where a successful bunt hit puts brings the tying run to the plate, it wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world to do. (Someone did this against Arizona I believe when Brenly was managing them, and he flipped the [expletive] out. It was the same situation though, where it was 2-0 with a no-hitter on the line in the 9th.) I'm not saying I would have been cool with them bunting to wreck the no-hitter, but if you're a first place team trying to put more distance between you and the Giants...strategically, it wouldn't have been the worst idea to get the potential tying run to the plate. Kruk says a lot of stupid [expletive], but I'm not sure he was that off the mark on those two comments. Agreed; I was surprised when watching it that it was scored as an error and not a hit; Castro was set to grab it and it took a big bounce and basically fired right at his gut. I doubt anyone else would have been able to do much besides just stop it like he did. And with the bunt he was just posing it as a "what if?" as opposed to saying that they should do it, and like you (and he) said, they were just down 2 and they're fighting for the division. It wasn't likely to happen, but it wouldn't have been the end of the world if they had tried.