Does that mean during the game no grounders went his way? Any throw to first for an out, ball is dead when he takes it out of the glove.
I think it means more than that, the ball was not even thrown to him at first. Getting an assist on a putout means he would have touched the ball. Never having to field in a game would not be that much of an oddity. As noted above it happened once in a double header Texas Rangers Toby Harrah