I feel so bad for that pitcher. I know it's all about winning the game but as hard as it is to pitch a perfect game and for an umpire to blow a call and cost you your chance to do something that not many have done......that's gotta suck!!!!! _________________ https://www.facebook.com/groups/moviesnshows/?ref=bookmarks
its really crazy...i almost feel that MLB should give it to the guy, even though that would probably never happen...i never knew how rare a perfect game actually was....Over the 135 years of Major League Baseball history, there have been only 20 official perfect games by the current definition. For comparison, more people have orbited the moon than have pitched a Major League Baseball perfect game. No pitcher has ever thrown more than one. The perfect game thrown by Don Larsen in game 5 of the 1956 World Series is the only postseason no-hitter in major league history. The first two major league perfect games, and the only two of the premodern era, were thrown in 1880, five days apart. The two most recent perfect games were thrown May 9 and May 29, 2010, just 20 days apart. By contrast, there have been spans of 23 and 33 consecutive seasons in which not a single perfect game was thrown....it would have been the 3rd this year, 24 days apart
Give the umpire some credit for stepping up, going to see the pitcher personally and admitting he made the mistake. Even the pitcher understands the guy is fallible, but respects him for his admitting to his mistake.
How many times in 135 years of MLB have umpires gone to see players and admitted their mistakes?
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thats all well and good....thats exactly what he should have done, probably on his hands and knees....it just goes to show that the MLB needs to utilize instant replay like other sports...we have the technology so that mistakes like this dont happen, perfect example where instant replay would make the right call where a human wouldn't
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NO to instant replay.... human element is a part of baseball however in this situation the call should be overturned and a perfect game should be rewarded but Selig said he is not changing it so o well....
they do use it for home runs...whether or not it was foul, hit over the yellow line on the wall, etc....the MLB should do the same as the NFL, give the coach 2 challenges per game....but then there have to be a lsit of allowable challenges....like, whether a catch for an out is "on the fly" or a "trap", whether a ball put in play is fair or foul, who beat who to the bag on force-out plays, whether a tag was made in time or not on tag-out plays, whether a pitch hit a batter or not...but at the same tim they shouldnt be able to challenge balls and strikes, balks, hits/errors, etc....this situation gives the MLB the perfect oppurtunity to implement replay in more of the game...it would be a shame if they don't
Yikes. The video clearly shows the runner out by half a stride. That's the worst call I can remember in MLB since an umpire failed to call fan intererence against the Yankees for the Jeffrey Maier incident in the 1996 ALCS.
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