SB Nation’s Jeff Sullivan takes a step back from the outcry following Armando Galarraga’s perfect game that wasn’t to assess the damage done. The real crime here isn’t that umpire Jim Joyce made a mistake, it’s that Galarraga will never have his moment of bliss on the field that he deserved. Instead, he was left accepting an apology
Armando Galarraga’s Perfect Game That Wasn’t: Jim Joyce’s Blown Call Wasn’t His Fault
Not by a perfect game. No, a perfect game couldn’t have done it. Not another one. We’ve already seen two of them in two months, with a no-hitter to boot. Perfect games are old hat.
But a perfect game blown by the umpire with two outs in the ninth? That’s big. That’s bigger than big. This could be the story of the year.
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