What Armando Galarraga’s Near Perfect Game Can Teach us About Justice

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🗓️ 16 August 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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When Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga took the mound on June 2, 2010 he was just looking to prove to the team that he deserved the stay in the starting rotation. But what began as a routine outing, turned into one of the most dramatic and historic moments in baseball history. Galarraga sat down the first 26 Cleveland hitters that he faced, leaving him one out away from a perfect game. But moments later, instead of glory, a blown call by the umpire, Jim Joyce, kicked off a nightmare for Major League Baseball. Today, ESPN’s Jen Lada explains what we can learn about justice and equity from this moment in time. Jen’s report, E-60 Presents 28 Outs: An Imperfect Story, airs August 18 at 4pm ET on ESPN and ESPN+. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's a beautiful night for baseball here in the Motor City. Warm, humid and we get you
0:07.8	ready for game two of the series featuring the Cleveland Indians and your Detroit Titans. Calerangue ready to go to work and here's the first pitch of the ball game.
0:19.8	Fourteen years ago in Detroit's Comerica Park,
0:24.0	Armando Galaraga stepped to the mound for the Tigers
0:28.0	aiming to do something he'd done hundreds of times before.
0:32.0	June 2nd, a regular day, nothing different.
0:35.0	I do remember the bullpen, my sinker is working really well.
0:39.0	Four up, four down against Armando.
0:41.0	But what began as a routine start by a pitcher fighting to stick in the bigs evolved
0:47.1	into something much more historic.
0:50.1	I'm going to prove that belong here because I don't have my spot. I never have my spot. It's secure.
0:56.0	He was always fighting for his spot on every rotation he was in.
1:00.0	One two three again for Galaraga.
1:04.0	Nine up, nine down.
1:07.0	I was hungry.
1:08.6	I was like, in my head I was like, I'm not going to come back down.
1:11.6	He is keeping the ball rather low against his Cleveland Indians hitters,
1:14.8	which is exactly what Galaraga needs to do.
1:17.3	I was not scared of like, okay, let's see what you got.
1:19.6	I'm going to show you what I got.
1:21.3	Galaraga's outing that day transformed from Provett to approaching perfection.
1:27.0	I started to kind of do the math in my head.
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