One of my earlier sports memories as a child is from 1983 when I watched Milt Wilcox of the Detroit Tigers almost pitch a perfect game on the small black and white television in my room. For those of you who don't know, a perfect game in baseball is when a pitcher faces the bare minimum of batters, 27, and gets them all out...no hits, no walks, no errors...27 up and 27 down. I watched Milt Wilcox almost get a perfect game 27 years ago. You can hear the late Ernie Harwell making the call on the radio here...
Well last night another Detroit Tiger, Armando Galarraga, again got the first 26 batters out and was one out away from a perfect game. Sadly on this night, he would get the final out except for the blown call of the umpire covering first base...
Armando handled this whole deal with a ton of class. The umpire has since apologized to Galarrage personally for missing the call and was in tears after realizing his mistake.
The commissioner of baseball Bud Selig should override the call on the field and award Galarrage a perfect game, both for his sake and for the sake of the umpire who will have to live with that mistake for the rest of his career. You don't believe me??? Just ask St. Louis Cardinal fans about Don Denkinger blowing a call in the 1985 World Series. They are still upset about that one.
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