Wow... just, wow.

[bastardsnow]

So, I don't get into sports much here, but that has to be the single worst call I've ever seen. I mean, yeah, I've seen more obvious calls that were blown as well, but none were quite so impactful. Just horrible.

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[dlgood]

None? Perhaps you are too young to remember, but I think Don Denkinger's blown call in the 9th inning of game 6 of the 1985 World Series was worse.

This actually isn't the first perfect game that got blown by an ump. In 1972, Milt Pappas (the pitcher the O's traded to Cincinnati for Frank Robinson) had a perfect game and a 2-2 count to the 27th batter. The ump called both of the next two pitches balls - for a walk. And those were incredibly controversial - but impossible to review.

On the other side of the coin, a lot of baseball writers and players in the game acknowledge that the final pitch in Don Larsen's world series perfect game (called 3rd strike on Dale Mitchell) was a ball.

[bastardsnow]

Yeah, I was 4 in 1985, so I don't recall that particular one. And I was not aware of the Milt Pappas one. Were those two balls as obviously strikes as this dude was obviously out?

In any event, this was really, really bad.

[dlgood]

I don't know how close the calls were in the Milt Pappas game, but it was pretty controversial.

This one was unambiguously awful. MLB has to do something. What was Jim Joyce looking at?

[bastardsnow]

I have no idea. I mean don't get me wrong, I think it was an honest mistake. Joyce has a great record as an ump, and he *knows* he got it wrong, to the point where he went to the clubhouse and personally apologized to Galarraga and the team, but, man... it wasn't really even that close.

[omegar]

Nothing worse than a bad call, it's why I think video should be used in more sports. It is really needed in football(soccer). However is still not seeing as needed by the governing body.