<p><div class="image-container full" style="width:800px"><div class="image"><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/520108e16bb3f7f23c000015-1200-655/bowling-perfect-game-denied.jpg?maxX=800" border="0" alt="bowling perfect game denied" width="800" /><p class="source"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLS8xP8IBCY">YouTube</a></p></div></div>This comes from the 2013 Luci Bonneau Doubles in Houston, where bowler Troy Walker was one strike away from a perfect 300 game when disaster struck.</p>
<p>As his ball hurtled toward the pins, the arm rake of the pinsetter lowered and deflected his ball into the gutter.</p>
<p>He got a do-over, but he couldn't get a strike and finish with a 297.</p>
<p>Awful (<a href="http://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2013/8/6/4593710/bowler-perfect-game-300-pin-setting-machine">h/t SB Nation</a>):</p>
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Bowler Denied A Perfect Game After Freak Mechanical Error Blocks His Ball

YouTubeThis comes from the 2013 Luci Bonneau Doubles in Houston, where bowler Troy Walker was one strike away from a perfect 300 game when disaster struck. As his ball hurtled toward the pins, the arm rake of the pinsetter lowered and deflected his ball into the gutter. He got a do-over, but he couldn't get a strike and finish with a 297. Awful (h/t SB Nation):

YouTubeThis comes from the 2013 Luci Bonneau Doubles in Houston, where bowler Troy Walker was one strike away from a perfect 300 game when disaster struck. As his ball hurtled toward the pins, the arm rake of the pinsetter lowered and deflected his ball into the gutter.

Bowler Denied A Perfect Game After Freak Mechanical Error Blocks His Ball

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