[Cricket24]

MLB should review the call and give the pitcher his perfect game. He deserves it. THEN they should FIRE the umpire. I don’t care how many times he cries!

[Carley]

Tears for himself.

[Col Frank Slade]

He’ll never get fired or even suspended.

Umpires union.

[Cricket24]

Oh and not to mention that he’s been an umpire for a long time. UMPIRES!! SHEEESSSHHHHH!

[dmz]

MLB should review the call and give the pitcher his perfect game.
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Sorry, but human error is built into the game, and frankly, I’m totally ok with that. No one likes to see the umps determine the outcome, but that’s what happens with humans, we make mistakes.

How many no-hitters have been broken up by bad calls? No one knows, but overturn this, and folks will be clamoring for their pet game to be overturned.

Frankly, game 1 of the 1996 AL playoffs between my Os and those effing pinstripes would be the first one I’d want overturned. Are you hearing me, Mr. Maier?

[mlizzy]

MLB should review the call and give the pitcher his perfect game. He deserves it. THEN they should FIRE the umpire. I don’t care how many times he cries!

I think they should give the pitcher his perfect game too. But not fire the ump. I had to watch that play three or four times before I was certain the runner was out; and that was in slo-mo. And he *did* apologize to the pitcher. It's not the ump's fault the rules of MLB do not include replays. I say, bring on the replays for ALL sports.

[microgood]

MLB should review the call and give the pitcher his perfect game. He deserves it. THEN they should FIRE the umpire. I don’t care how many times he cries!

No way. Not unless they review every strike that may have been a ball, and every other catch in the game. One strike call that was actually a ball or one ball that was actually a strike could have changed the game as much as this obvious error.

[b4its2late]

THEN they should FIRE the umpire.

Easy for you to say. Have you ever reffed a game? Little League, Pee Wee's, Jr High, High School? If not, try it, then see how you feel....

[Osage Orange]

Well.....Umps miss calls, all the time.

It happens...

Crying here.....is geesh, lame.

It's a game....it's not like life and death..................................

[Poison Pill]

they should FIRE the umpire.

Blown calls happen all the time. This is just one that got attention. There's not one call in baseball, or any other sport, that could not be called better by a machine. Not one. Really, there's no practical reason not to fire all umpires based just on the element of error they bring to the game. If folks want the human element in the game, they have to live with the bad calls.

[Hegewisch Dupa]

He not only shouldn’t be fired, he should be set as an example of how to man up to your mistakes. You want to hand out pink slips to some blue, then you start with Joe West. Fire the umps who think they are above the game, not those who are devastated when they don’t get their part of the game right.