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To: whitney69
Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga famously lost a perfect game on a missed call by first-base umpire Jim Joyce with two outs in the ninth inning on June 2, 2010.

Everyone here in Detroit, and likely around the country, remembers that call.

Had it not been for that bad call, nobody would ever remember Galarraga's throwing that no-hitter.....

29 posted on 02/26/2026 6:38:36 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (AOC for President, 2028. And don't forget to detoxify your liver.)
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To: Hot Tabasco

“Had it not been for that bad call, nobody would ever remember Galarraga’s throwing that no-hitter...”

Jim Joyce spent 30 years at the elite level. He was voted the best umpire in Major League Baseball by players in a 2010 ESPN The Magazine poll. And that was after the infamous call. The last person to be perfect they put on the cross. Don’t know any players of officials close to that.

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53 posted on 02/26/2026 10:57:38 AM PST by whitney69 (uin.)
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