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Originally Posted by fliptuner
I totally understand where you're coming from BUT:
- It wasn't only a personal achievement, it takes a whole team to pull off a perfect game.
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That may be true, but really it's a personal achievement for the pitcher. Nobody cares who all the others players that supported him were.
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- Circustances. Had it been any other out than the last one, a case could be made. It was the game ender and was wrong. Given the circumstanes, I think an overrule would be acceptable. No-no's are pretty rare (266 in 135 seasons)
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Well, we're talking about a perfect game, not a no hitter... which has only been done 20 times in history. This would have been the 21st. It's crazy that there has already been two this year, and this should have been the third, and second in less than a week.
But it doesn't matter what the circumstances are... there is nothing defined in the rules that say exceptional circumstances warrants an overrule, so he can't just make a new rule up on the fly after the fact.
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- Technology. Many professional sports have adopted some sort of replay. Maybe it's time for MLB to move it into the 21st century. There are tons of breaks anyways - it's not like it would really interrupt the flow of the game. Maybe 2 appeals/team/game.
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Well, they actually do use video review already... but only for determining whether a ball is a home run or foul ball when it passes by the foul pole. Should it be expanded? Probably.
The thing is in this day and age, way more of the officiating duties COULD be done via electronics... and it would probably be a lot more accurate and consistent than humans. But they always want to preserve the human element to the officiating as much as possible, and it's only when things go egregiously wrong like in this case where they start considering using more technology to reduce human error.