with the glove, the person running down the line, and the other person who factored
significantly into this event for full credit.
Many thanks to regular Fan Teaser observer (and former Conversations with Sports Fans guest, Laura Dennis [Season 1, Episode 6]) for submitting this one as a possible Teaser.
What with the latest no-hitter in Major League Baseball this week (congratulations to Michael Lorenzen) we felt it appropriate to dust this one classic near-perfect game out and revisit it.
On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tigers’ starter Armando Galarraga had retired the first 26 batters he faced and certainly seemed to retire the 27th – Jason Donald – but umpire Jim Joyce had other ideas. He called Donald safe on the bang-bang play at first. Had their been video review that day, Domingo German‘s perfecto on June 28, 2023 almost certainly would have the been the 25th all time perfect game, not the 24th.
Here is the boxscore from the game and the Wikipedia account of how things played out. Below, please find the replay and calls from Detroit and Cleveland television and radio.
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