Revisiting Armando Gallaraga’s Perfect 26
Reading Time: 2 minutesLet’s paint the scene. Bottom of the ninth, two outs. A rare and historic perfect game is on the line. Detroit Tigers’ pitcher Armando Galarraga has thrown a perfect 8.2 innings. Will this stellar performance blossom into a perfect game? The 1-1 fastball is grounded to first base. Galarraga runs over and and covers the bag. First basemen Miguel Cabrera flips it to Galarraga. Galarraga catches it; foot on the bag with ball in hand before the runner reaches the base. History will be made. All that needs to happens is the umpire to motion “out”...
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