The Time Has Come for TV Replays in Baseball
June 14, 2011 by Peter Golenbock · Leave a Comment
Last night in Detroit, Rays outfielder Justin Ruggiano came flying around third and slid hard into home plate, avoiding the sweep tag of Detroit Tigers catcher Alex Avila. Ruggiano slid past the plate, spun around and nailed the plate with his foot just before Avila went to tag him again. (The second tag was further […]
That’s Just Me, I Like to Get the Question Right
June 3, 2010 by Josh Deitch · 3 Comments
Armando Galarraga should have pitched a perfect game. He should have retired twenty-seven batters in a row. He should have joined the twenty other pitchers in Major League history to have accomplished this feat. He didn’t. Instead he got screwed. This was a once-in-a-lifetime, overwhelmingly improbable, shockingly emotional screw-job comparable to when Vince McMahon and […]
The Game That Changed Baseball History
June 3, 2010 by Gabriel Schechter · Leave a Comment
I don’t have to tell you what happened last night. Armando Galarraga pitched a perfect game–according to the rules of baseball–but umpire Jim Joyce’s failure to apply Rule 6.05(j) [a batter is out if “after he hits a fair ball, he or first base is tagged before he touches first base”] on the 27th out […]
