Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga was absolutely, positively, and completely robbed last night. He pitched the 21st perfect game in Major League Baseball history and will not get the credit for it.
There must be something that can be done about this travesty. Come on, Bud Selig, be a leader. Be a real baseball commissioner with the best interest of the game in mind and find some kind of reason to change the official outcome of last night's Tigers/Indians game. Find some sort of extra-constitutional power in the game's annals and overrule the current final result.
Major League baseball umpires are human, to be sure, but this just ain't right. Galarraga himself was very kind and considerate in his remarks after the game, and Tigers manager Jim Leyland after the game said all the right things as well. But there needs to be an outcry against this; there has to be a reaction so strong and so firm as to force a change.
The rule book be damned in this case. Stand up for what's right, Major League Baseball. You don't have to change the outcome of the game; that won't be affected at all if you simply retroactively overrule the call. And sports justice will be served.
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