Did anyone else see this call in the Indians vs Tigers game? As an umpire I feel bad for Jim Joyce. He knew that he blew this call the moment that he made it, even if he wont admit it. It's unfortunate that this had to happen to rob Armando Galarraga of the perfect game but it is baseball and no one is perfect. I am not going to say that instant replay needs to be instituted, this is a call that is gotten right 99.999% of the time. It is a routine play. Could instant replay have helped Armando? Of course, but if we start to institute instant replay into major league baseball and more than it already is our games are going to go on forever. MLB games already take way to long, most taking 3+ hours add instant replay and they will just take longer. Not only that, but where do we draw the line? When do we go to instant replay? Almost every play in baseball is a close play we could potentially go to instant replay every 2 minutes, what about balls and strikes? Baseball has too many judgement calls that must be made in a split second for it to go to instant replay.
Umpire judgement, good or bad, is part of the game. Let's keep it that way.
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