I don't think you fully understand what just happened though, so I'll calmly explain...
In baseball, a pitchers goal is to shut the offense of the opponents team down, to try and keep them from scoring runs so that your team can win. This is not an easy task because baseball is full of great hitters that are trying their hardest to win. In fact, a perfect game is probably the hardest achievement for a pitcher to get. A Perfect Game means that you did not allow a hit or a runner on the base at all. The pitcher has to get 27 straight outs. To put things into perspective, over the 100+ year span of Baseball, with over 100+ games being played by over 25-30+ teams a YEAR, it has only been done 20 times in Baseball history. 20. That's it. Just 20 pitchers have done it. I'm stressing this point so you can grasp how great, extremely hard, and impressive an achievement this is for a pitcher in baseball.
Well, today a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers named Armando Galarraga was 1 out away from pitching a Perfect Game. On what should have been the final out, the umpire called the base runner safe.
This was what should have been the final out of Galarraga's perfect game. As you can clearly see, the runner is out. He is CLEARLY out. 95% of the time, closer plays at 1st base like this are still called out, but this was not a close play. The runner was clearly out. Galarraga was robbed of what is known as "baseball immortality" because of one of the worst blown ump calls in baseball history. I'm not even a Detroit Tigers fans but when it comes to Perfect Games, pretty much all baseball fans, even fans of the team that is getting shutout, will pull together and root for that pitcher to get his perfect game. So this whole thing infuriated me and made me sick to my stomach. To have your perfect game taken away by a call like this is just unbelievable.
That's why I flew off the handle.
