This has to be the worst call in Major League history.
I know it’s a judgment call, but how can justice be THAT blind in THAT situation? Unbelievable.
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This has to be the worst call in Major League history.
I know it’s a judgment call, but how can justice be THAT blind in THAT situation? Unbelievable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBrhmpyR5P0
This call (1985 World Series Game 6) will forever be the worst ever. It only beats this one b/c it cost St. Louis what would have been the series-clinching game.
They lost Game 7, too.
Both were horrible calls, though. I feel horribly sorry for Galarraga. Chances are he’ll never do it again.
By the situation of the Cardinals-Royals WS, I don’t know how that could be bigger. I realize the WS is a bigger thing, but consider a few things:
1) There is a World Series winner every single year. There have only been ~20 perfect games thrown in the tens or hundreds of thousands of games started
2) The Cardinals still had an inning to play in that game AND a full game to play the next game. This was the absolute last moment of the rarest feat in sports
That’s a viable argument, but I personally think the World Series call was worst considering it could have been the deciding game in the Series.
Either way, both calls were horrendous.