Filed under: Indians, Tigers, MLB Umpires
All this week, the FanHouse staff will look back at the most significant baseball storylines of 2010.
Armando Galarraga was better than perfect.
With apologies to Dallas Braden and Roy Halladay and the 18 pitchers before them who had managed to pitch a perfect game in the major leagues, none of them emerged from his day in quite the same way as Galarraga did.
Galarraga had done the physical part. He'd retired all 27 batters the moment his foot hit first base, beating Cleveland's Jason Donald to the bag. All he needed was to wait for umpire Jim Joyce to give the out signal.
That's when this June 2 Tigers-Indians game crossed over from being merely a great performance to one of the most memorable incidents in recent big league history.
Source: http://mlb.fanhouse.com/2010/12/31/armando-galarraga-jim-joyce-achieve-much-more-after-near-perfec/
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