Detroit's Armando Galarraga was one out away from tossing a perfect game against the Indians Wednesday night. Jason Donald, Cleveland's No. 9 hitter, hit a weak ground ball in-between first and second, drawing Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera away from the bag, meaning Galarraga had to race to cover.
Cabrera fielded the ball cleanly, and tossed it Galarraga, hitting him in stride as the pitcher stepped on the bag a half-step before Donald. Unfortunately for Galarraga, the Tigers and the Tigers fans, umpire Jim Joyce saw it differently.
Donald was called safe, ending the perfect game.
Galarraga just pitched the league's most disappointing complete game, one-hit shutout.
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In 1972, Milt Pappas was one strike away from throwing a perfect game, and Bruce Froemming instead called his 3-2 pitch a ball. Until now, that was the most infamous incident in which a pitcher lost a perfect game on the 27th batter. This trumps it.
It’s too bad there wasn’t a giant jumbotron nearby that Joyce couldve just looked at and, you know, corrected it. Oh well.
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by ZombieMonta on Jun 2, 2010 9:20 PM EDT reply actions
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