Jun
More Perfect Game Thoughts
I read an interesting article earlier today (cannot find it now or I would link it) that mentioned that a perfect game is far more than the pitcher being perfect. Everyone has to be perfect; the fielders, the catcher, the coach/catcher calling pitches, and yes, even the umpires. There is a reason there have only been TWENTY of them.
Jim Joyce has gotten a lot of heat today for “ruining” Armando Galarraga’s perfect game by blowing a call at first base. However, we have to remember that Roy Halladay got quite a bit of help from the home plate umpire in his perfect game the other night. There were several borderline pitches, especially early in the game, with three balls. The umpire easily could have called them ball four and with a walk the perfecto would have been over early. So, let us not be too hard on the umpires for ruining a perfect game; they also helped create one.
