The rule at the time was that you weren't allowed to have your foot in the goal crease (rule was changed for NHL, still exists in Olympics/international). This was the Stanley Cup-winning goal by the Dallas Stars to defeat the Buffalo Sabres in game 6 of the 1999 championship series. Brett Hull's skate was clearly in the crease. I spent the last 4 years or so close to Buffalo where I went to school, the whole city and the whole Sabres fanbase is still pissed off about it to this day.
Honestly the only achievement I can think would be better than a perfect game would be Wayne Gretzky scoring 200 points in a single season, And i also agree that the tuck rule is stupid..
Actually the tag did touch him. It's been reviewed over and over again in slow mo and at different angles. The catcher did in fact touch the runner before he could touch the bag.
The Helton one was godawful but it came in the 6th inning of an unimportant game. #3 cost the most and was a gimme call that umps make 1000's of times a year
On #4, I can understand why he would miss that call. The umpire is already looking at 2 other things: did the fielder catch the ball and did the runner beat the throw. Not that it makes it defensible when the 1b is 3 ft off the bag, but no human can see 3 things all at once at game speed. Therefore, umpires need to make assumptions. Since the 1B is nearly always on the bag, it's reasonable. Of course, the problem is when the assumption is wrong, as it was in this case.
A: How is getting a perfect game the most stupendous accomplishment in sports? B:People remember championships more then they do single person achievements in a "TEAM" sport. And my comment was not saying that a "Perfect Game" would not be a great achievement. C: What does the skate in the crease rule being stupid have to do with anything? It was still a rule in the game at that time and it still impacted the results of a championship going to maybe the wrong team.
A: the 'skate in crease' rule no longer exists because it was frickin stupid and everyone realized that. B: in the over 300,000 games of the MLB that have ever been played only 23 perfect games (not a no hitter as you called it), 3 of which came after Gallaraga. The Detroit Tigers have never had an official perfect game. You can see where having literally the most stupendous accomplishment in sports being robbed from you on a gimme is worse than not calling off a single goal for a bad rule
I think the situation that the game was in made #3 a terrible call. But, put that call in the 5th inning of any regular game, it doesn't get looked at again.Yes, it's the wrong call, and fairly obvious, but a much closer call than the Helton one, the dude tagging the guy at home for #10, etc. Just sucks that it ruined a perfect game.
The Tuck Rule and the Calvin Johnson 'process of the catch' were technically both by the rules but they're two of the worst calls in NFL history. And if you can think of an achievement better than a PERFECT game I'd love to hear it. I understand your argument about the team but there was more on the line for Gallaraga
#4... i get the rule does not apply here, but baseball HAS to get rid of that god fucking awful "as long as he's close to the bag, it's an out" rule...
why cause he lost a perfect game? Maybe, but there were some other bad calls in there that were bad. The helton 3 feet off the baseone was fucking horrible!
Gallarga's blown perfect game is the worst call in sports history. Nobody has ever been robbed of a perfect game due to a blown call EVER! And perfect games are so rare. There have only been 23. And each MLB season is 162 games for a single team. Yeah, that should be #1
Anish Loomba a Stanley Cup is worth more than a no-hitter but I would much rather pitch a perfect game, which is a feat only accomplished 23 times in MLB history, over a no-hitter, Stanley Cup, and a scoring title all put together. Championships happen yearly but perfect games in the MLB don't.
