Despite Dodgers’ loss, Yasiel Puig’s peg to third base was the Story

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DENVER — The much-improved Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen had one get away Friday, but that didn’t mean all of the team’s throws were not worth talking about.

Even in defeat, Yasiel Puig’s strike from more than 300 feet in right field to nail Trevor Story at third base in the fifth inning was being marveled at by players and coaches alike.

“As far as the degree of difficulty, that might be one of the best plays I have ever seen,” manager Dave Roberts said. “And I think that people have made amazing plays throughout history, but I think the degree of difficulty, from trying to make a play off the wall to recover a ball running away from you, to pick it up and throw a strike from however far away, I just can’t think of a player in baseball that can make that play.”

The Dodgers ultimately lost Friday’s game, 7-5, to the Colorado Rockies, when reliever Chris Hatcher gave up a two-run triple to Brandon Barnes in the eighth inning. But at the time Puig made his throw, he helped starting pitcher Scott Kazmir maintain a one-run lead.

“That was unbelievable, it really was,” Kazmir said. “I mean, first, right when he threw it, I didn’t think it would make it there and then it just seemed like it sped up as it was halfway there. I mean, just right on the money. It was unbelievable.”

The Dodgers were quick to give Yasiel Puig props for his 300-plus-foot throw from right field that nailed the Rockies’ Trevor Story at third base. “That was …

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