I know that this isn’t technically “celebrity” related, but this is bigger than any cheap celeb news. A perfect game in baseball is when a pitchers gets out 27 batters in a row. This is the minimum number of batters a pitcher can face in a complete game. This is so rare that there have only been 20 in Major League Baseball History. MLB has been around since the 1800s and there are 32 teams in the league right now that play 162 games a year. You can only imagine how many games that is that this is an astronomical feat. We’re not talking best franchise opportunities here.

Why does this bother me? I’m a Detroit Tigers fan, and Armando Galarraga is a Detroit Tiger. There has never been a Tiger that has thrown a Perfect Game.

What happened? Galarrag had gotten 26 of the 27 outs. He had a groundball that was thrown to first for the final out. Everyone began to celebrate. The umpire called him SAFE. He was out. Everyone knows he was out. The umpire even admitted after the game that he made a mistake. So…Galarraga proceeds to get his 28th out in a row and wins the game. Never to be credited with a perfect game. I am in shock.

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