Galarraga to chat with fans Wednesday

by Kurt Mensching on Jun 14, 2010 1:11 PM EDT

From the Tigers' media department:

DETROIT - Detroit Tigers righthanded pitcher Armando Galarraga will chat live with fans in English and Spanish on tigers.com from 2-3 p.m. on Wednesday, June 16. Fans can log onto tigers.com/chat beginning at 1 p.m. on June 16 to submit questions for Galarraga.

On June 7th, Galarraga was named the Bank of America Presents the American League Player of the Week for his efforts on June 2nd, when he fired a one-hit, complete game shutout versus Cleveland. It was the 28-year-old Venezuelan native's first career complete game and shutout.

For more information, or to register to chat, visit tigers.com/chat.

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Cool.

by rcpratt on Jun 14, 2010 1:22 PM EDT reply actions

This is great

Honestly, the perfect game that wasn’t has been so much bigger than an official perfect game. Good for him.

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by KidRick48 on Jun 14, 2010 1:27 PM EDT reply actions

Why doesn't the official Tigers media shop make some reference to that game as perfect?

You’d figure the home guys at least would make sure to point that out every time they refer to the game.

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by ahtrap on Jun 14, 2010 2:55 PM EDT reply actions

because officially it wasn't and it never will be

but I do feel a “near-perfect” reference would be better than “one-hitter”.

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by Kurt Mensching on Jun 14, 2010 3:28 PM EDT up reply actions

I think there's a chance with the next commish

I mean, if Fay Vincent wiped the books clean of 50 or so no-hitters, who’s to say the next guy won’t say “Hey, it was the 27th out, nothing is left incomplete if we change it”. That’s what I hated about the “setting an ugly precedent”, most other calls people would have changed either had more play in the game or more games left in the series.

by Elfuego51 on Jun 14, 2010 5:31 PM EDT up reply actions

In my official book, it was a 28 out perfect game, making it the most impressive perfect game, ever.

by Tigerdog1 on Jun 14, 2010 5:54 PM EDT up reply actions

I saw an interview with Ken Burns shortly a day or two after the game, and he believes that someday it will be ruled a perfect game, but it may take several years

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by SabreRoseTiger on Jun 14, 2010 6:06 PM EDT up reply actions

I saw that, SRT. I like Burns, and loved his mini series on baseball, but I was surprised to hear that.

I don’t know exactly how that could be done. They wouldn’t be changing the outcome of the game, but maybe just the official scorer’s decision, I guess. That would leave a conflict on the record books, but then there’s already a conflict, isn’t there?

by Tigerdog1 on Jun 14, 2010 7:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Well, it wouldn’t conflict with anything, because such a decision by the commish would change the record book in every way to reflect the ruling of perfect game. The box score would be re-written to say “Jason Donald out, 3-1.”

It would conflict with present day accounts, but that’s nothing new.

by Nick Galea on Jun 15, 2010 4:32 AM EDT up reply actions

his first complete game and shutout?

Holy crap, that’s impressive. I had no idea that even losing the perfect game it was still such a career milestone for him.

Regardless of the official record, it’s a perfect game, the fans know it , his teammates know it, and he knows it. It may be remembered for that a lot longer than a “normal” perfect game. :)

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by Baroque on Jun 14, 2010 8:13 PM EDT reply actions