BASEBALL / DAILY REPORT : ANGELS

Rod Carew, Angel hitting coach, said he would have bunted to break up Rogers’ perfect game and doesn’t understand why no one attempted a bunt Thursday.

“A base hit is a base hit,” Carew said. “If a guy’s getting you out, I’d drop one down. Even if I’m the last hitter up, I’m trying to break it up any way I can.”

Said Ranger Manager Kevin Kennedy: “If somebody had bunted, I would have shot him.”

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Rogers’ perfect game was only the second pitched in the first year of a ballpark. The Philadelphia Phillies’ Jim Bunning pitched one in 1964 at Shea Stadium.

There have been only seven no-hitters pitched in first-year ballparks, the last thrown by Nolan Ryan on May 15, 1973 at Royals Stadium in Kansas City.