First it was the A's Dallas Braden, then last Saturday, it was the Phillies' Roy Halladay. So for many of us who follow baseball, we've noticed that pitching perfect games (which has only been done 20 times in Major League Baseball history) was becoming a recurring phenomenon, especially when Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galaragga was faced the Cleveland Indians' Jason Donald with two outs in the 9th.
Unfortunately for us who follow baseball, there's been another phenomenon going on: bad umping. Coming off the heels of the Joe West incident during the White Sox-Indians series last week, umpire Jim Joyce called what was arguably one of the worst calls in professional sports since the USA vs. USSR basketball game in the 1976 Olympics, by calling Donald safe (something that even Donald felt was the wrong call).
To his credit, Joyce is maned up and has apologized to Galaragga and Tigers manager Jim Leyland. That being said, it was still a bonehead call and it denied Galaragga his rightful place in baseball history. Detroit was hurting after that, Galaragga was hurting, the Tigers ball club was hurting, and all of us who follow baseball were hurting with them.
Or maybe it's just the Cleveland Indians...
UPDATE: Major League Baseball has decided not to reverse the call.
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