How is this not a no-brainer for Major League Baseball? To review- Detroit Tigers Pitcher Armando Gallaraga took a perfect game all the way to the last out of the Ninth Inning of their game against Cleveland yesterday when the last guy he pitched to ground out a single into centerfield. Gallaraga got to the bag before the Cleveland player Justin Donald touched base, but the ump still ruled the player safe at first!
Problem was, he was out- see for yourselves:
(That's a really bad angle, but the best footage (around the 0:56 mark) I could find. Sorry.)
Now, the Ump seems pretty damn devastated by his mistake and to his credit, Armando Gallaraga has accepted his apology- but Major League Baseball is still waffling about whether or not to overrule the official call and award Gallaraga the perfect game.
Come on, peeps- watch the replay. He got the out, the game was perfect. Give it to him. These things don't happen that often in baseball- there have only been 20 so far and Gallaraga's gem yesterday should have been 21 and if Bud Selig is going to overrule any call it should be to recognize excellent pitching such as Gallaraga's.
I don't even like baseball all that much and there's something fundamentally wrong with a sport that can't overturn the just plain wrong call and award Gallaraga the perfect game.
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