GRD, I think what we want you to see is this.
You're at a game, and your team is getting a perfect game thrown against them. As the game gets into the 7th, 8th, and 9th innings, you're increasingly being more amazed and concerned with that than you are about your team coming back and winning. If your team happens to break up the perfect game, you of course are excited as hell about that, and if you come back and win, even better. But by the end of the game, if the perfect game is thrown, you're more concerned with the fact that you just witnessed a pitcher throw a perfect game than you are with the fact that your team lost 1 game out of 162.