Armando Galarraga was more than perfect on Wednesday night at Comerica Park in Detroit. He gave a master class of gentleness and with a stunning calm he showed to the world how elegant may be a person with principles.
After the wrong decision of umpire Jim Joyce, Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers did not have the perfect game. Galarraga missed but certainly also earned an exclusive place in the history books.
Joyce's decision denied Galarraga the 21th perfect game in baseball history and the first for the Tigers and despite being favorites in the MLB Odds for that game and achieving a victory on Wednesday game, the Tigers feel they lost the game.
Galarraga was not well known outside of Detroit earlier this week and along with Joyce, whose career had passed without any major setbacks, remained as the hot topics in the social network Twitter for more than twelve hours after the game ended.
Despite the reactions that have occurred around this controversial "mistake," Detroit general manager Dave Dombrowski said the team would not ask Major Leagues Baseball to change this decision.
The dignity and class shown by the organization of the Detroit Tigers in this situation is something to admire and undoubtedly is showing the great sportsmanship of this team. I believe like many that Galarraga and Detroit manager Jim Leyland are worthy of praise for the management gave it to such a difficult situation.
On the other hand, Joyce’s decision has caused discomfort to baseball lovers including all of the Venezuelan territory, in what could be seen as a morale blow for a country that lives with enthusiasm this sport.
No one, absolutely no one, can say that Galarraga did not made all the required to mimic Wilson Alvarez, Anibal Sanchez and Carlos Zambrano as the only Venezuelans with a No hit No Run or to join the Nicaraguan Dennis Martinez as the only Latin American with a perfect game.
Finally players and umpires will make mistakes, but I believe that for baseball and other sports, this kind of referee mistakes can be avoid with the technology and instant replay.
- Michigan Sports Guy
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