I'm still trying to make sense of the strangest night of the MLB season so far, but the morning cobwebs have addled my brain. When I went to bed, Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey had the most compelling story of the evening, and then I woke up and the West Coast had one-upped him with Matt Cain's perfect game. So poor Dickey gets shoved to page two, and yet … somehow, I still think his one-hitter against the Tampa Bay Rays might be even more compelling than one of the rarest feats in baseball.

There are three ways to look at Dickey's gem.