{"id":12063,"date":"2022-04-19T12:56:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=12063"},"modified":"2022-04-24T13:02:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T20:02:58","slug":"justice-for-galarraga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2022\/04\/19\/justice-for-galarraga\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice for Galarraga"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/daily_brief\/sports\/college-law-class-recognize-armando-galarragas-2010-perfect-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from Inside Hook<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A College Law Class Is Trying to Get MLB to Recognize Armando Galarraga\u2019s 2010 Perfect Game for Detroit Tigers<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Monmouth University law students are making the case for MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to add Galarraga\u2019s gem to the perfect game list<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>BY\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/author\/ebleier\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">EVAN BLEIER<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Armando Galarraga - Only hit of Almost Perfect Game\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dfCfjT5BH9o?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Out of more than 200,000 Major League Baseball games that have been played over approximately 150 years of pro baseball,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/all-time-perfect-games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">only 23&nbsp;<\/a>have been officially recognized as being perfect. Armando Galarraga threw what should be the 24th for the Tigers against the Cleveland Indians on June 2, 2010, in Detroit, but umpire Jim Joyce inexplicably called Jason Donald safe at first base on what would have been the last out of the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It didn\u2019t change what had happened, but Joyce owned up to his mistake immediately upon seeing a replay and famously said he \u201ckicked the shit out of that call\u201d and that he was sick over taking a perfect game away from \u201cthat kid over there.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.insidehook.com\/daily_brief\/sports\/college-law-class-recognize-armando-galarragas-2010-perfect-game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at Inside Hook<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Inside Hook A College Law Class Is Trying to Get MLB to Recognize Armando Galarraga\u2019s 2010 Perfect Game for Detroit Tigers Monmouth University law students are making the case for MLB commissioner Rob Manfred to add Galarraga\u2019s gem to the perfect game list BY\u00a0EVAN BLEIER Out of more than 200,000 Major League Baseball games [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12063\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}