Ouch!

Of all the ways to lose a bid to record a perfect game in baseball, this may be the worst I've ever seen: a blown call on what would (and should) have been the final out of the game! It prevented Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga from joining Roy Halladay and 19 other Major League hurlers in baseball history.

It's always tough to fault an umpire on a bang-bang play at first base, but it sounds like the wrong call was made at the most inopportune of times. If that had been the only "hit" scored in the game but had come earlier, it wouldn't be so bad... but you know that Galarraga reached first base on that play and was already congratulating himself on his perfect game, only to be stunned by the call on the field.

Wow.