{"id":3424,"date":"2010-06-03T11:50:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-03T11:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3424"},"modified":"2025-09-29T21:37:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T21:37:57","slug":"blown-call-the-perfect-game-that-wasnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3424","title":{"rendered":"Blown call &#8211; the perfect game that wasn&#8217;t"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ugh, terrible. At least the ump apologized. And the pitcher was gracious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"112\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/6a00d834525a2f69e2013482ea36ac970c-200wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13726\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e20133efbe37ca970b-pi\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><\/a> <br> &nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here&#8217;s the video and the ump&#8217;s interview. &nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/mlb.mlb.com\/video\/play.jsp?content_id=8624955\">the blown call <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think the Baseball Commissioner should make an unprecedented move, and step in to revise the result and give the guy the perfect game. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/06\/03\/sports\/baseball\/03detroit.html?hp\"><font color=\"#800080\">On Baseball &#8211; One Out From Perfect Game, Tigers Pitcher Is Thwarted by Umpire\u2019s Call &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Galarraga told reporters that Joyce apologized to him after the game, adding that he had no instinct to argue the call. \u201cHe probably felt more bad than me,&#8221; Galarraga said. Smiling, he added, \u201cNobody\u2019s perfect.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh, terrible. At least the ump apologized. And the pitcher was gracious. &nbsp; Here&#8217;s the video and the ump&#8217;s interview. &nbsp;the blown call I think the Baseball Commissioner should make an unprecedented move, and step in to revise the result and give the guy the perfect game. On Baseball &#8211; One Out From Perfect Game, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13727,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3424\/revisions\/13727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}