When Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga crossed first base with the ball in his glove, in the top of the ninth, against the Cleveland Indians on June 2, everyone at Comerica Park, and watching on television, knew he had just completed a perfect game. Everyone, that is, except the umpire. To the amazement of everyone, Jim Joyce ruled that Cleveland's Jason Donald had actually just beaten Galarraga to the bag after hitting a grounder to the right of Tigers first baseman Miguel Cabrera; as the replay made painfully clear, he was had simply blown the call, and it cost Galarraga, who had retired the first 26 Indians in order, a perfect game.