Absolutely not! He needs to do his best to be right on every single one - as he always has.
I later watched it from another angle and you’re right–it’s more like one step than two. But it was still more botched than the Denkinger World Series call, which for a long time seemed to be the standout of “egregiously blown calls.”
He owes us.
Selig shouldn’t overturn it. Just my opinion.
If it was snowconed and bouncing in the glove, there probably wasn’t the POP of ball into leather that he was listening for while watching foot head to bag. E10
It could have been worse. What is the Indians went on to score 5 runs? The game is about Ws after all.
Have you seen the (my) Indians this year? 
Note my subsequent post where I attributed the play at first base to the correct player.
But in this case it was obvious (apparently to all but the umpire) that the batter didn’t beat out the grounder. Without looking at replay, it would be reasonable for a Scorer to say “Clearly the runner was short of the base when an accurate throw arrived. If he was in fact safe, this can only be due to the way the ball was caught or the base was touched.”
Agreed - though I think a Scorer must look at replay to be sure of the facts.
I don’t follow baseball at all and I might be misunderstanding, but if you are asserting that only the MLB prevents franchises from being moved, then I recommend you read up about the Phoenix Coyotes!
If I totally misunderstood you, then please ignore me!
Tell that to Milt Pappas.
Zev Steinhardt
Selig will not reverse the call.
Your not following baseball at all is the only possible reason for you thinking the Coyotes are something other than a hockey team.
And if a scorer can, why not an umpire?
What a dumb ruling. Selig is officially a spineless jackass in my book.
Elvis, I think you need to reread mnemosyne’s post.
The only good thing about Selig not overturning the results on the field is that forever Galaraga is going to be known as the pitcher with a 28 batter perfect game. It’s not the same. But, it is something.
I do not know if I am favor of replays. But, I do know I am in favor of other umpires coming over to help guys who make egregious mistakes. I would have had no problem with another ump coming over to confer last night, so that they got the call right. I am sure the 2nd base ump and the home plate ump saw that he got it wrong. Why can’t they help? That sucks that it didn’t (or can’t) happen.
The Pappas incident revolved around a ball/strike call. The strike zone, unlike the first base bag, is an imaginary area with no physically defined parameters (despite modern television’s attempts to define them graphically).
It is impossible to argue with absolute certainty that a given pitch was objectively a ball or a strike. By contrast, the replay of last night’s play at first base is objective evidence that the ump missed the call. The ball was physically in Galaraga’s glove, Galaraga’s foot was physically on the first base bag before Donald’s.
Furthermore, in this instance, Jim Joyce agrees that he missed the call, whereas Bruce Froemming remains defiant to this day that his call was the correct one.
I stand by my statement.
by not changing the call, this play will become a trivia question that baseball fans can win bar bets over in 50 years.
Remember the World Series a couple of years ago when Tampa Bay scored to cause a suspended game? Had they not scored, by the rules, the Phils would have won a rain-shortened game.
Selig said after the fact that even if that happened, he wouldn’t have allowed a World Series to end on a rain-shorted game. So, he has no problems actually changing RULES, but a judgement call that everyone, even the umpire, agrees was wrong, he doesn’t want to change? I don’t get it.
Selig should go.
I really am for maintaining the longstanding traditions of baseball, but there comes a time when remaining hidebound carries less logic than acknowledging reality.
To imagine that awarding Galaraga a perfect game somehow will open the floodgates to monumental future abuse is absolutely ludicrous.
It says that reasonable men and women are utterly incapable of looking at a set of facts and rendering a fair judgment, and thus must be constrained at all times, with no possible exceptions.
It’s a very sad day for the game I love.
Selig’s been the commissioner (or acting commissioner) for almost 20 years. It took you this long to come to that conclusion? Really?