My hat's off to the pitcher for taking it as well as he did. The kid is a class act and I hope many good things come he way in the future.
He sure is a class act. Don't everybody go bashing the umpire Jim Joyce just yet. He apologized in tears to Galarraga after the game and was absolutely distraught about it. This is a guy who has umpired since 1989 with many many postseason games and a few World Series under his belt. He's human, he blew it and he felt terrible about it afterward and even admitted that he blew that one, so at least he manned up to it.
The wife, who is a huge baseball fan also, and I were talking about it last night and we both agreed that 9 times out of 10, even if the runner is a hair safe in that instance the call is most likely going to go to the pitcher with the perfect game on the line. Nobody knows what he was thinking when he called Donald safe but it happened so time to move on with it I guess.
What's truly weird about all of this is that it would have been the third, yes third perfect game this year and the 21st in the modern era, to have 3 in one season would be remarkable.
