Clayton Kershaw left after 7 innings of a perfect game, and MLB fans were crushed

We haven’t seen a perfect game in Major League Baseball since 2012.

And as of Wednesday afternoon, we still didn’t get to see one from the all-time great, Clayton Kershaw.

The future Hall of Famer was on the mound Wednesday afternoon against the Minnesota Twins, and was PERFECT THROUGH SEVEN.

But then? Dave Roberts — or it could have been Kershaw’s call himself — called for Alex Vesia. The reliever gave up a walk and a hit, and that was the end of that.

Before you go calling for the Los Angeles Dodgers manager to be fired or something, we’ve got to run through why this makes a lot of sense: