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Jun
03

Update on call: VIDEO: Armando Galarraga almost throws 21st Perfect Game in MLB history

By Allan

6/3 16:57: It looks like the Galarraga’s perfect game is going beyond the commissioner’s office.  Here’s some information from ESPN:

Michigan lawmakers got into the act on Thursday, lobbying Selig to reverse the call and recognize Galarraga as having thrown a perfect game. Gov. Jennifer Granholm issued a proclamation declaring that Galarraga had indeed pitched a perfect game, while U.S. Rep. John D. Dingell said he’d introduce a congressional resolution asking Major League Baseball to overturn the blown call.

And U.S. Rep Thaddeus G. McCotter, in a letter to Selig obtained by ESPN.com’s Amy K. Nelson, asked him to recognize it as a perfect game, saying “only the truth will uphold and honor the integrity of the game; and the truth is that this game was perfect.”

Later, McCotter told Nelson, “When this happened, the feeling here in Detroit was this could only happen to us; this was just one more thing on top of everything else.”

McCotter was upset with Selig’s decision. McCotter’s letter was written before Selig said he would not reverse Joyce’s call.

“I’m a conservative. I like the tradition of the game, I like the human dimension of the game,” McCotter told Nelson, “but [Selig] cannot divorce himself from the human dimension of the game. What are they, automatons up there? Is it a computer that you just plug into? “Bottom line, I just wish that some of the character and moral courage that the umpire showed in admitting his honest mistake had been replicated by Major League Baseball.”

6/3 11:48: According to Jon Morosi of FOXSports.com, he says MLB is not overturning the controversial call today. He adds that they are not ruling out a later action, but that would be unlikely.

Commissioner Bud Selig said, “Selig says he will “examine our umpiring system, the expanded use of instant replay and all other related features.”

6/2 20:41: According to Jon Paul Morosi of FOXSports, he says that it is technically possible that they could change the hit to an error and therefore preserving a no-hitter. One replay angle showed that Galarraga may have juggled the ball after receiving the ball from first baseman Miguel Cabrera.

“I want to see it before I say anything,” official scorer Chuck Klonke said late Wednesday night, when told of the additional replay angle. “I want to look at it myself. I’d have to look at how the whole thing developed.”

6/2 17:52: Probably worst umpire call ever by first base umpire Jim (James) Joyce.

Right handed pitcher Armando Galarraga has almost pitched the 21st perfect game in Major League history.  Here’s the video: