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The most unpardonable sin in Detroit sports over the past decade. Your nominee please?
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Re: The most unpardonable sin in Detroit sports over the past decade. Your nominee please?
Good one! Not just a no-hitter, but an extremely rare perfect game! The pitcher was Armando Galarraga, who handled it with superb class. The umpire Jim Joyce was also very contrite about the incident and realized the gravity of it toward posterity.
Only 23 pitchers in the history of Major League Baseball have thrown a perfect game.
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Re: The most unpardonable sin in Detroit sports over the past decade. Your nominee please?
Galarraga retired the next batter. Therefore, it was a perfect game. 28 up, 28 down.moldyoldie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 4:54 pmGood one! Not just a no-hitter, but an extremely rare perfect game! The pitcher was Armando Galarraga, who handled it with superb class. The umpire Jim Joyce was also very contrite about the incident and realized the gravity of it toward posterity.
Only 23 pitchers in the history of Major League Baseball have thrown a perfect game.
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Re: The most unpardonable sin in Detroit sports over the past decade. Your nominee please?
I'm sure Vic is being facetious, but here's the definition of a perfect game:Vic Doucette wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:02 pmGalarraga retired the next batter. Therefore, it was a perfect game. 28 up, 28 down.moldyoldie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 4:54 pmGood one! Not just a no-hitter, but an extremely rare perfect game! The pitcher was Armando Galarraga, who handled it with superb class. The umpire Jim Joyce was also very contrite about the incident and realized the gravity of it toward posterity.
Only 23 pitchers in the history of Major League Baseball have thrown a perfect game.
A perfect game is defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings in which no opposing player reaches base. Thus, the pitcher (or pitchers) cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any other reason and the fielders cannot make an error that allows an opposing player to reach a base; in short, "27 up, 27 down".
Besides, Vic, there are only three outs in an inning, so in Galarraga's case it was 28 up, 27 down. ...unless you're trying to make the point there were "four outs" in that ninth inning.
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Re: The most unpardonable sin in Detroit sports over the past decade. Your nominee please?
I think all he’s saying is that the guy was ruled safe but was actually out. So technically he retired 28 in a row regardless of what the umpire decided the call was... the reality was something different.moldyoldie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:11 pmI'm sure Vic is being facetious, but here's the definition of a perfect game:Vic Doucette wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:02 pmGalarraga retired the next batter. Therefore, it was a perfect game. 28 up, 28 down.moldyoldie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 23, 2019 4:54 pmGood one! Not just a no-hitter, but an extremely rare perfect game! The pitcher was Armando Galarraga, who handled it with superb class. The umpire Jim Joyce was also very contrite about the incident and realized the gravity of it toward posterity.
Only 23 pitchers in the history of Major League Baseball have thrown a perfect game.
A perfect game is defined by Major League Baseball as a game in which a pitcher (or combination of pitchers) pitches a victory that lasts a minimum of nine innings in which no opposing player reaches base. Thus, the pitcher (or pitchers) cannot allow any hits, walks, hit batsmen, or any opposing player to reach base safely for any other reason and the fielders cannot make an error that allows an opposing player to reach a base; in short, "27 up, 27 down".
Besides, Vic, there are only three outs in an inning, so in Galarraga's case it was 28 up, 27 down. ...unless you're trying to make the point there were "four outs" in that ninth inning.
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Re: The most unpardonable sin in Detroit sports over the past decade. Your nominee please?
Yes, I gathered that eventually, hence the four-out ninth inning. I can be slow and too matter-of-fact at times.
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Re: The most unpardonable sin in Detroit sports over the past decade. Your nominee please?
The Lions getting screwed out of a playoff berth in 2017 because of the Atlanta game's ending
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Re: The most unpardonable sin in Detroit sports over the past decade. Your nominee please?
The Detroit Lions - another decade of consistent mediocrity/suckiness. While other teams go thru their ups and downs, rebuilds, the Lions on a flatline of suckiness with no end in sight.