When it comes to rare feats in baseball, few rival the perfect game. Only 24 official perfect games have been thrown in Major League Baseball’s 154 seasons, with the latest from the Yankees’ Domingo ...

, Doane clearly remembers heartache from his own controversial call while umpiring a National Baseball Congress tournament game in Wichita, Kan. It came in a game involving the Grand Rapids-based ...

Bud Selig won’t be using his powers as commissioner to overturn an atrocious wrong call by umpire Jim Joyce that ruined the Detroit Tigers’ Armando Galarraga’s perfect pitching performance last night ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig has issued a statement regarding ...

It’s one of the most infamous mistakes in sports history. Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was denied a perfect game in 2010 when an umpire erroneously ruled that the 27th batter, with two ...

DETROIT (AP) -- Armando Galarraga bitterly sipped a beer minutes after he almost pitched a perfect game, lashing out at first base umpire Jim Joyce for blowing a call on what would have been the final ...

Armando Galarraga handing Jim Joyce the lineup card on June 3 in Detroit Credit: Mark Cunningham/MLB Photos via Getty Images When I was 16 I spent a summer as an umpire in a kids’ baseball league. I ...

Barring a change in the umpiring schedule, Jim Joyce is slated to be behind the plate for Armando Galarraga’s start tomorrow against the Orioles. Joyce was working first base when he infamously blew ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. After first base umpire Jim Joyce saw the tape, he realized he had made ...

Jim Joyce, the umpire who made the "you've got to be %^&*# kidding me" call of the last 100 years, stood at home plate and wiped a tear from his eye. He then gave Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a ...

DETROIT (Reuters) - An umpire's blown call on what would have been the final out of the ball game cost a Detroit Tigers pitcher the chance to record Major League Baseball's third perfect game in less ...

A new, thorough examination of Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game in 2010 with the Detroit Tigers debuts on Sunday. And though a Monmouth University law class petitioned MLB and commissioner Rob ...