What a gutsy (yet terrible) call by the umpire. Especially with that being the last out and the game in Detroit. Once he sees the replay, he will feel like the biggest jerk.
Seriously, I hope MLB overturns that call, and calls the runner out and awards the guy a perfect game. This is definitely going to cause instant replay to come in for all games from now on.
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I'm a bleeding heart nice person so I know that Joyce is one of the best umpires in the game and in this case he just missed one. But what a time to do it. I'm pretty sure he's seen the replay and feels like crap about it.
This thing will get 30000X public media attention and immediate instant replay might be the end result if MLB panics about public relations.
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As a massive Tigers fan this stings. Imagine a second perfect game within a week. Ugh such a brutal call, I dont even see how it was close in the umps eyes. I wonder if something like this pushes MLB closer to instituting instant replay.
Although he totally blew the call those are some pretty candid and classy words from Joyce. He screwed up, he admitted it and felt terrible about it. He sounds pretty upset about the whole thing.
No umpire wants to miss that call. You can't fault the guy in that spot beyond just making a bad call which happens 15 times a day. It would have been just as bad had the runner been safe and he called him out. Then you have a tainted perfect game. You can't make any call based on context. You just have to call it like you see it.
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Complete class by both Armando Galarraga and Jim Joyce. Joyce admitting he made a mistake, that he blew the call and apologizing takes a lot of balls. Galarraga then turning around and saying nobody's perfect (unclear if the pun was intended or not) show's class on his behalf.
This situation could have been a lot worse, it will be Selig that will take the flack for this.
I say bring in replay, as this was just fataing horseshingaurd!
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