Detroit can never get a break. Ever. (sniff)
whew that was close. I’d hate to get one of these every week.
The batter was clearly out! I am not a Detroit fan, but Galarraga deserved his Perfecto! These umpires stink and are arrogant! Maybe this will lead to a much needed instant replay process to get these calls correct.
Aw, too bad so sad. I hate whining.
That really sucks. Galarraga showed some real class. I’m watching to hear what Leyland has to say.
Really horrible umpiring!
Where’s the video?
I still am PO’d at Don Deckinger for blowing the call at first base and letting Kansas City beat St. Louis in Game 6 of the 85 World Series. The same as every Cardinal fan in the world.
One of the worst calls in baseball history.
C’mon, Bud. You need to overturn this.
I was watching the game tonight as a lonely Tribe fan and desparately wanted to see the perfect game broken up but not in this way. The only explanation that the umpire might have is that he thought that the pitcher was bobbling the ball. He can never umpire in Detroit again.
The home plate ump should have seen it and over ruled the call. He may have made a mistake also on such an obviously bad call.
How life imitates baseball... or vice versa.
MLB needs to step in and award that young man his perfect game. The feat is incredible and he was royally ripped off.
Bud Selig should do the right thing, award the perfect game and not add an asterisk either, except to say this patcher was forced to get 28 outs to make 27 count.
An open letter to the President of the American League and the Comissioner of Baseball:
I have loved baseball my entire, rather long life.
The League President and the Commissioner, for the integrity of the game, have a duty and responsibility to reverse the call. Fix it. Get it right.
It is sufficiently clear. Statistics regarding the 28th batter can be reversed out.
A concept such as “we don’t change calls after the fact” holds no water in these rather unique circumstances. Fix it. Get it right.
There is the concept of a protested game, when the actual outcome of a game can be reversed after the fact. By the League President.
There is the concpt of “thrown games,” when the Comissioner can do as he sees fit to fix things, to get them right.
That is what leadership is about. To do otherwise is simply pigheaded stubborness. Do not hide behind the skirts of the law.
Put an asterisk in the Rulebook under your unilateral authority for the integrity of the game: Replay can be used when the call for the 27th out of a Perfect Game is in dispute.
Gentlemen, fix it. Get it right.
Thank you.
you gotta be kidding me?
Words fail me. There is no place for such idiocy in baseball. One out away from a perfect game, and you call him safe? Unfrigginbelievable. This umpire should be lined up against a wall and shot. And yes, I am series. (This is hugh!)
Not quite as bad as Denkinger, but pretty clearly out. Ought to be reversed.