Talk about your bad beats.
 

Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga just had baseball immortality taken from him when first base umpire Jim Joyce blew a call at first base on the 27th and final out of the game. Just awful!

Disgraceful. How an ump can miss a call that badly in that situation is baffling.

unreal.

He ought to be fired for that!

Obviously he had to be aware of the situation. You would think that any bang/bang close play, the runner would be out just on merrit alone. But to blow a call on a play that really wasn't that close is absolutely disgraceful. He actually looked like he was originally calling him out and then ruled safe. I'm disgusted and I couldn't even care less about the Tigers.

Now I'm sure we are going to have listen to the instant replay discussions for baseball again for the umpteenth time.

i feel for that guy. that was his one chance at the record book.

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There will be some form of instant replay in baseball after that atrocity.

If they add instant replay then they definitely need to put the pitchers on the clock.

They need to put pitchers on the clock regardless or make batters stay in the box. Or both.

I agree. That was terrible though. If it's even close, the guy has to be out. He was beaten by at least a half-step. Even the hitter looked like he didn't want the hit.

:tro::tro::tro:

hitter lost his one chance to be in the record books.

That is an abolute crime. If I were the ump, I would arrange for a police escort and the first flight out Detroit.

Yes, this game will deserve an asterisk. Absolutely horrendous call...

* First base umpire, dumb phuk -- pitcher threw perfect game, umpire blew call.

Is it unreal that two official (three unofficial) perfect games have been pitched in barely one month. Amazing!

Not sure if this video or the toddler smoking is worse...it's a toss up.

WTF was that? First time I've seen it... he was out by a full step!!! What a joke!

They miss these damn calls at 1st the most. Have no idea why, but they do this a lot.

I think crowd noise is a factor. It's nearly impossible to focus your eyes on the foot hitting the bag and the ball entering the glove at the same time. The umps tend to listen for the pop into the glove, the foot hitting the bag or both. With a pending perfect game, I'm sure even that small crowd was making some noise during the play last night. Without his listening crutch, the ump flat out blew it. Props to the ump for standing up and admitting his mistake. A few other umpires in the league could learn from his honesty and humility.

Baseball already allows instant replays for home runs, how difficult would it be to expand that to bang bang plays on the basepaths?

Here's hoping Bud Selig does not succumb to the pressure to change last night's call. The bad calls have been part of the game from it's inception. If you change one play, you have to go back and change the rest. The can of worms he'd open up would be immense. Just fix it moving forward and let last night be.

Agreed. Plus they have to keep the hitters in the batters box.

I think the bigger story of the game was 1 hour and 44 minutes. The Yankees and Red Sox are launching an investigation. That's 2 and a half innings for them! It was horrendous (the call). Very sad, it was the one thing the Indians could have accomplished this year....being perfected.