DETROIT -- Sometimes you can tell more about a man when a perfect game is taken away from him than you can when he pitches one. Nobody would've blamed Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga if he'd ...
DETROIT – Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga is ho-hum about being on the mound for the first time with umpire Jim Joyce since their infamous moment together. "It will be no big deal," Galarraga said ...
Exactly a year after a missed call cost him a perfect game, there was no reunion between pitcher Armando Galarraga and umpire Jim Joyce. There won't ever be one, in fact, on a big league field while ...
DETROIT -- Even amid tough fans in a city with a rugged reputation, there was room Thursday for human compassion regarding the human condition. the previous night, stepped onto the field primarily to ...
It was a moment that forever altered the lives and legacies of two men. On June 2, 2010, Detroit Tigers right-hander Armando Galarraga thought he had completed what would have been only the 20th ...
Have you ever had a day where you did everything right? A day when you were perfect, perhaps? Not many of us have. But June 2, Armando Galarraga had one of those magical days. It wasn't something ...
As you likely saw or heard about by now, yesterday’s Kentucky Derby finished with controversy, an objection, an instant replay and then a disqualification. Country House did not cross the finish line ...
When baseball introduced limited instant replay in 2008, Bud Selig rejected the notion that a system that enabled umpires to review some plays but not others inevitably would be expanded. “Not as long ...
Quick, what do Mike Witt, Len Barker and Tom Browning all have in common? Hardcore baseball fans among you will point out that these players are among the 20 major leaguers in history to have thrown a ...
It was a random Wednesday when Eric Wayne and his friends were running late. This was 10 years ago, driving 2½ hours east to Detroit from Grand Rapids, where they looked at the clock — it was past 4 p ...
Detroit — It was June 2, 2015, and Major League Baseball's new commissioner, Rob Manfred, was in Detroit, the latest stop on his visit to all 30 teams' ballparks. Prior to the game, Manfred stopped in ...
Former Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga told The Athletic that he hopes Major League Baseball can one day recognize his famous June 2, 2010 start with a perfect game. Ten years ago, Galarraga ...