Leo Martin Same

Matthew Plotnick same here

Leo Martin same

7 years later and Im still pissed about this

8 years later almost and goddamn does it still hurt like hell...

Greg Moore True, I would have kicked joyce right in the nuts...

Greg Moore Yeah! The only one on the team to show ultimate sportsmanship on the team. Did you see the gang-style rush toward Joyce after the last out?

+Aminals They're supporting their teammate for what was an obvious injustice. I'm okay with their frustration, they're only human. Galaraga knows that he doesn't have to get mad and defensive because he knows all of his teammates and coaches have his back.

I like how he smiled like damn I'd be crying if I lost it like that

Frank Steen forreal ...i woulda stabbed him with the first base pad

Nicholas Blake Limon That was the play of the game.

Like yaz catch in the rohr one hitter

That's how you knew it was meant to be

Don’t think I ever saw that before. Holy crap, what a play.

Link please

Thank you Spidey

True, however there would probably be hundreds of games that you would have to go back and "repair" as well.

Steve Kalis yeah, you have a point. It's just a shame. Hell of a sportsman though.

@@stevekalis139 true it opens a Pandora's box of sorts but I can't think of any other perfect games or significant single game achievements that were gotten so blatantly wrong. At the end of the day, Gallarraga and his teammates and those fans never get the celebration they deserved, that's the really sad part. What good is a record when you never got to celebrate it or experience it live?

It’s a ridiculous idea but it would be interesting if there was a kind of raffle that happens every 5-10 years that plays like this get to be reviewed and reversed. At least it would be fair.

Same

It's 27 outs :)

UNDERTAKERSFANZ how is he

What, how is my grandma like that

+ant29ar "clearley"

+Kpatel clearly

As I've said before, under the circumstances probably the worst call in modern baseball history. What makes it even more egregious is the fact that the play wasn't even very close.

@Austin Sutter close but in my opinion, no. that was a series and there were still two more outs to be made and orta didn't make it home. This was a Masterpiece of pitching. This was genius. Then that wimpy hack comes and ruins it.

@Austin Sutter Fred Brocklander. Unlike Denkinger and Jim Joyce, he lacked the humility to admit he screwed up and doubled down on his bonehead call that may have cost the Astros game 5 of the '86 NLCS.

@@dskyyksd what happened in that game? What call did he make or fail to make?

@@sadbravesfan He called Craig Reynolds out at first base on a double play attempt that should have allowed a run to score from third and would have allowed it had Brocklander made the right call. Instead the inning was over and no run scored. Replay clearly shows that Reynolds was safe. The Mets went on to win the game in 12 innings, 2-1. It's at 37 minutes in this video. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/p5ianNt-09bNlKM.html

I would have just walked to first as the last batter

Kalen Furman OMFG THANK YOU!! If you a hit a shot to the outfield & can get a single or double ect....cool BUT you hit a dribbler to 1st & you FUCKN SPRINT TO THE BAG for the LAST OUT! I know people are gonna say it's a game blah blah, fine what can I say your tech right BUT to me that guys an asshole! He hit hands & was adjusting his helmet pleased with himself!! I once thought he put his hands on his head like "fuck did that just happen" but NO he was running like it was life & death like a scum bag! 1st base coach looked away from him & the guys in the dugout were speechless! WHY would you do that!?! I mean of course don't walk & let him get it but if it's close like that have some respect. People will disagree but I'm mmmly with you my brother!!!

you clearly do not understand sports at all. if he would have jogged to first it wouldve not only disrespected his team but galarraga as well. it would have basically been saying hey im going to give you a perfect game since you cant do it yourself. if he didnt try his hardest to get a hit for the last out can you really call that a perfect game?

the truth there's a flip side to that. who wants to have their names in the history books as a team that got no hit? yeah, mad respect from the team that got no hit should be shown because it is super hard to achieve, but you have to also respect the game itself. play it the right way to the last out as a no hitter needs to be earned- not given. that's just a bone head comment.

he was just adjusting his helmet, you see he was happy

I think it was.

No because they didn't have it until 2014 or 2015

Still implemented mainly because of this play. He's a good umpire, I'm sure it gave them a reason to implement it.

nick morel this is 100% the play that was the bottom line to put replay in baseball

I think it was too

Rocketman9mm like you would have gotten it right at that speed. it's so easy to watch replays and feel like the best official ever, but when you're out there, getting to see things only once, at full speed, for nine innings, 162 games a year, it's a whole new ball game.

Yes I would have. I'm not blind and i'm not 60 years old like that ump is. That wasn't a bang-bang play. It wasn't even close. It was an obvious out to the other 35,000 people in the stadium. And the fact that he does it for 9 innings for 162 games a year for how ever many decades he's done it means he should be better at it, not worse. You keep saying 'at that speed' like it's hyper-speed and it's only obviously a bad call in super slow mo. No, just no. it was blatant and people in the upper deck could and did see that the guy was out.

I don't know if people in the upper deck could actually see that. They were probably frustrated Detroit fans. I've been watching baseball for years and I couldn't tell either until they showed the replay. Also, no. It probably wasn't clear to the fans either until a replay was shown on the jumbo-tron. You have to remember that those were a bunch of upset Detroit fans. I wish they could've had and used replay here so that Gallaraga could be awarded the perfect game that he rightfully deserves.

Rocketman9mm that and don dinkenger in the 85 world series

DumbDuude1001 You're right. I wouldn't be able to do it. But I'm not a major league umpire.

umpiring*

+Legendary Gaming lol the hall of fame?

graham grasdal "refereeing" you don't know shit bruh

lmao “refereeing”

Would you want Angel Hernandez at first

A game and moment I'll never forget as a sports fan. I'm a Detroit sports fan but have never been and never will be a die hard Tigers fan, I'm all Lions and Pistons, but nothing has ever gutted me like that call. Nothing. I'm as die-hard of a Lions fan as a guy can be, not them going 0-16, not the Lions losing in the playoffs to the Cowboys due to bad calls, nothing ripped out my guts like that blown call.

Me too. I watched it live with my family in Florida. I am a Reds fan originally. It was one of the sickest things I have ever seen live in my life (in sports).

I agree he was a good sport the but hell if I were him I would have blown a fucking gasket

Exactly! It wasn't even a very close play, which makes the missed call that much more horrible.

snarfadoodle I would have just walked to the dugout and into the locker room and be like I'm done with this shit

Warning And ejected... do not mess with unpire.

@Mavin Marque you don't need to slow it down. Heck! play it faster even.... he was out by 2 minutes!

Ok then they'd have to go and do that for every single game which is impossible

The mlb is ran by a bunch of fucking idiots

sadbravesfan bro what😂no they wouldn’t 😂this was a perfect game that was ruined not every game is like this they don’t have to fix every game😂🤦🏻‍♂️

@@sadbravesfan no they wouldn't. so many people saying this as if it's some universal truth instead of just a hot take.

Many bad calls ruin a player's career (Galarraga is lucky because this play is famous). Changing this call is unfair to all the other ruined careers you have never heard of.

Yep. Never said a word to Joyce at the time, accepted his apology later. Class act.

The only reason he admitted to the "screwed up" was after he viewed it on tape, he got caught, more or less, and he choked the biggest call of his life.

an expos pitcher lost a perfect game in the 12th to a double i think

@@pyzo. It was the 10th inning - it was HOFer Pedro Martinez. He got the first 27 outs but it was 0-0 and the leadoff man for the Padres in the 10th inning doubled.

InsidiousSwede I don't think his legacy is ruined because he did admit he was wrong, apologized & genuinely felt horrible for doing that & as far as I can see the fans are still mad but they forgave him for stepping up like a man. I could be wrong but it's just how I see it is all

Bottom line... If you are an ump that's worth a damn, we should hardly know your name no matter how long you've been doing it.

That's why Joe West, Angel Hernandez, and CB Bucknor are household names.

You've never fucked up once? Must be nice. I'm sure he wished they did have instant replay then. It would have let him off the hook.

His legacy will be known, as many others have pointed out, for being a man and admitting he was wrong.

almost 8 years later and I'm still crying

Same here

I will never forget. Amazing what an impact sports can have on us, for better or for worse...

Jim Joyce doesn’t 😂😂😂

@@jameslisle7775 lol

You got your wish lol

@@skyhicks177 seriously? They're making it?? Also where can I watch those if I don't have ESPN subscription?

@@sadbravesfan If you hadn't found it here is an article about it www.mlive.com/news/2019/09/a-perfect-game-to-feature-armando-galarraga-jim-joyce-and-the-imperfect-game.html. It wasn't a 30 for 30 though. Just a regular documentary

He retired the batter after the blown call too.

No shit, but it happened, and he did.

Izswagbull l actually I think he's more popular 'because' of the controversy surrounding this. Without looking it up can you name any of the other perfect games in baseball history?

Felix Hernandez! But just because he's venezuelan too :p

Armando Galaraga ruined his own career. No one is talking about Dallas Braden or Phillip Humber and their perfect games. Longevity and consistent greatness earns a pitcher respect, not flash in the pan one year wonders.

Izswagbull l -ohh yeah it "ruined his career". That 1 call because he happened to have a potential perfect game going-THAT ended his entire MLB career. Man you're a FUCKING IDIOT!

He sucked, which is what made this night so unbelievable. Who would've ever expected Armando frickin galarraga to pitch a perfecto. But here it was some random ass Wednesday with him on the mound just tossing darts all game long. He was unbelievable that night

A perfect game has to be perfect and that includes the umpires.

***** doesn't show up in the books though. You also have to feel bad for Jim Joyce. He admitted it and his kids still are getting death threats as of today.

The hall of fame has the first base. That is still better than nothing and its considered the first ever 28 out perfect game

JackBlack3456 i hate to say this, but they deserved it then and they deserve it now.

@@deepcosmiclove nope that's the worst argument I've seen even the umpire said the game was perfect he blew the call

Leyland failed. He should have had it overturned

The astros cheated, did the MLB forfeit all of the games they cheated? No... can't just go back and change *final* scores, also there would be tons of games to go back on. Still unfortunate though.

Yep. The runner was out. I watched the replay like fifteen or twenty times and I did not see the runner beat it out. Shame on Major League Baseball for not reversing that call- that call was horrendous.

S.S .A lol like you wouldn’t smash in a second

did he just call kate upton fat? dude. really, shes fucking gorgeous.

Tigers are the best you're probably a Royals or Red Sox fan let me guess

+Gojira Godzilla Godzira Gozira Zilla even if you watch the indians' dugout in a slow mo, they have guys that are blown away by that call

@CRISTOBAL Racist?

@CRISTOBAL I'll agree it was a bad call. But I find it a little ridiculous, that he would do it on purpose. And I don't think him being racist would drive someone to miss a call in a baseball game. I think you might be reaching a little bit here.

@CRISTOBAL Well I'll be honest, I wasn't aware of the whole situation with Latino players, it just doesn't seem reasonable that Jim Joyce was sitting out there thinking "Yeah Im going to blow this call, that'll get these Latinos out of here."

@CRISTOBAL A few things. This would not have been the first perfect game thrown by a Latino pitcher. Dennis Martinez did it in 1991. And, this one's a matter of opinion, I don't really think this was the worst call ever made in MLB history, but that doesn't really matter. And finally, if he were actually planning this, I think he would know that it would damage his own reputation more than anything.

@CRISTOBAL Shoot sorry just saw this. Ya know what that's fair. I don't entirely agree, but you bring up an interesting argument at the very least.

Title is bs

pandaKrusher wrong

good call..haha

The ump actually contemplated retirement after that ,cried while apologizing to the pitcher post game and bought him a car. It was clearly a mistake, nothing fishy about it.

It was BLATANTLY obvious that his foot was in contact with the base long before the runner touched the base, so i stand by my original statement!

To suggest he blew the call on purpose is simply incorrect.

Think what you want, as will I.

they had the chance to, the commissioner's office ruled not to, because they didn't want to "open a can of worms"- it's not like it was even close, this was a true out, and instant replay would have 100% gone in Galarraga's favor if it existed back then. Sadly, it took this massive blown call to expand instant replay, so this will never happen again.

Do you know the reasoning behind the commissioners decision? I get not wanting to open a can of worms but like you said this is CLEARLY an out. I understand its a judgement call and those can't be fought but when it's THAT CLEAR there has to be some exception.

He still had to throw the pitches

The third baseman made the play off the foot.

he throws the pitches for the defence to catch and throw. the defence covers pitch

His pitches are the reason there are ground balls and pop-ups.

+Legendary Gaming dumbass strike outs don't mean shit ya as a pitcher you you want to get them but you just want to get outs any way you can even if it means getting batters to fly out and ground out and. He should get most of the credit

everybody has those days

Yeah at the worst possible fucking moment

that would have been upstanding if he did, especially since instant replays for calls didn't exist yet. If this happened today, replay would overturn it, and he'd have the perfect game. The play wasn't even close, it'd easily be overturned in a heartbeat today.

@@jackson5116 they replayed plays prior to this

Josh Lewis they did not use instant replay for anything

@@wwekane2468 the year prior in the playoffs they did. 09 playoffs, A rod had a homer reviewed. Look it up man

the 1985 World Series was pretty damn big, considering it went for a championship. This was easily the biggest regular season blown call ever, but in fairness, it gave validity for expanding instant replay, which means plays like this will never happen again- replay would have given him the perfect game if it existed then.

Center field and Short Stop seemed like the real MVPs. They kicked ass. Not to demean the Galarraga, but those dudes were on fire.

He didn't walk anyone or give up any home runs, so there's that.

He was putting pitches where they needed to be in order for the defense to make the plays. So it was pretty much all Galarraga

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Eh still.

From what it looked like, it was a slow easy grounder (for a pro baseball player at least) that should've been easily fielded by the 2nd baseman.

He's racist that's why

That was what killed me the most, dude knew the circumstances

+bvestationfan It was sort of poorly played by Cabrera, but I think he was just paranoid about letting the perfect game slip away with 26 already down so he panicked and couldn't risk letting the ball get through... Although he still made a good throw and the runner was out anyways.

Aaron Clutch You're definitely correct, but a better 1B such as Mark Teixeira or Paul Goldschmidt would have let that ball pass and instead focus on covering first

+bvestationfan who gives a shit. the play was made, and gala stepped on the bag. are you really here to comment on the execution of a SUCCESSFUL out? really?

moegerms Uh yes, you fucking idiot. This is what sports is all about. You evaluate all aspects of the game, not just the end result. If you win a game 6-4 but commit 7 errors along the way, you don't just say "ah fuck it we won moving on." You go back and look at everything you did wrong and try to improve on it.

+bvestationfan i've learned not to argue with Yankee fans because they are mentally ill and incapable of logical reasoning so here is your reply. don't bother replying to me because i will not see the comment:^)

Guillen was a terrible second baseman that year, and Cabrera executed the play required. I don't blame him for the umpire's mistake. I appreciate Jim Joyce's apology, and forgive him, but that doesn't mean that someone else should get the heat.

Had Cabrera fielded his position properly, the runner would have been out by at least 10 feet! Not a step and a half.

The corners are suppose to field any ball they can even if that means getting in front of the middle infielders. This is how he was taught since he was 5 years old. The corners are closer. This is fundamental baseball. He only done what he has been taught and what he is paid to do. No way by any means should the first basemen have allowed the ball to get by and the second basemen field it if he was able to field first. Simple.