Update Number 4. Monday, September 17, 2018, 1:25pm. Still Photo Sequences and a Link to a GIF have been added in the most recent version of the Jim Joyce Imperfect Game.
Update Number 3. Saturday, September 15, 2018, 9:30pm. Please check this link for the most recent version of this James Joyce Imperfect Game story. Still Images and a link to a GIF will be added thoughout this night to the link above.
Update Number 2. Dashcam Detective is working on a new version of the play at first base in the Imperfect Game of June 02, 2010. Dashcam Detective has determined two truths, no one angle exactly showed everything that happened in regards to the movement of the ball, and that it will take a series of stills from two angles to tell the story. I will post a link here when the new research is finished.
Important Update 1. After looking and looking and looking, and finding nothing on youtube, Dashcam Detective did manage to find a very recent article (July 5, 2018) on MLB.com that shows the same angle as I have below, and with much greater clarity. HOWEVER, it must still be noted that at the time the original game was played, the Detroit Tigers Replay crew replayed the angle that would have shown a bobble, but with a freeze frame in the middle of the replay. So NO discussion was ever made about Galarraga bobbling the ball before everyone had decided the incorrect call was made because of that freeze frame. I can't link directly to the video, I have to link to the article, and if you watch the replays eventually you will see the same angle as below, but with more clarity. (End of update)
This video clip of Jason Donald running down the base line to first base to break up Armando Galarraga's Perfect Game attempt has never been seen before BECAUSE THE FREEZE FRAME HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE MIDDLE OF THE SHOT. (I have to use CAPS because some people are just viewing the video only and not realizing what the critical difference is.) Correction. In the beginning of July of 2018 MLB released all the angles of the Imperfect Game, including the one that Dashcam Detective removed the freeze frame from. However prior to July of 2018, Dashcam Detective could never find the angle anywhere on Youtube.
Whether your mind is changed about Jason Donald being safe or not, can we at least conclude that Umpire James Joyce saw that Galarraga was bobbling the ball and that influenced his decision? Joyce probably NEVER saw this play the way it is depicted below. WITH THE FREEZE FRAME REMOVED when he was invited to reviewt he play after the game. After the game the instant replay crew most likely simply showed Jim Joyce the same instant replay that was shown during the game, and that would be with the freeze frame included in the middle of the sequence. Almost Never before seen video below, FREEZE FRAME HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM MIDDLE OF SEQUENCE.
As you watch the above video, please keep in mind that it is in Slow Motion. Slow motion will slow down the movement of the ball by a significant factor, making it look like the ball is more in control than it actually was. Although the video above is ground breaking in terms of showing what has never been shown before, anywhere, if MLB actually has the original video and played it back in real time and removed the freeze frame as has been done here, it would most likely be even more apparent that the ball was being bobbled by Galarraga as he stepped on first base.
Below we can see the original replay version of this play that was broadcast in the Cleveland Market. The exact same angle below is the ONLY version that everyone in the world saw, but it includes a freeze frame inserted just as Galarraga touched first base. The freeze frame interrupted the flow of the play and basically obscured that Galarraga appears to be bobbling the ball. This is the freeze frame heard round the world that obscured that Galarraga was bobbling the ball as he touched first base.
There are two kinds of bobbles, so lets review them. When an outfielder is trying to catch a fly ball they may bobble the ball as many times as they want, as long as they eventually hold on to the ball without the ball touching either a fence, wall, or the ground, and the batter is out. However, if there is a runner tagging up to advance one base, as soon as the outfielder touches the ball, the baserunner is free to leave their base and advance.
In this instance, the baserunner Donald is free to keep advancing down the first base line until the ball has been contained by Galarraga while Galarraga's foot is simultaneously on the base. So just because eventually Galarraga contained the ball does not give him retroactive rights to claiming possession when the ball first entered his glove. Galarraga can be credited with getting the out once the ball is contained in glove, his foot is on the base, and the runner has not yet reached first base.
Sometimes people confuse catching the ball at first base with an outfielder catching a fly ball. Many think as long as eventually the ball is contained in the glove without first touching the ground, the time of possession starts when the ball entered the glove. But lets go back to our previous example above, the runner tagging from a base can leave as soon as the ball touches the outfielder, the runner gains an advantage from contact with the ball by the outfielder, irrespective of all else.
Perhaps an umpire can clarify this, I am suggesting the same rule applies to a baserunner chugging down the first base line line, they can keep advancing towards first base until the ball is contained in the glove and the fielder with the ball is touching first base.
I don't recall ever seeing a first baseman have a throw enter their glove, the ball then bounces off of the inside of the glove into the air, the runner crosses first base, the ball lands back into the first baseman's glove, and the runner called out. Can you ever recall a play like that? I can't.
For a more complete analysis of this play, please click here.
Perhaps an umpire can clarify this, I am suggesting the same rule applies to a baserunner chugging down the first base line line, they can keep advancing towards first base until the ball is contained in the glove and the fielder with the ball is touching first base.
I don't recall ever seeing a first baseman have a throw enter their glove, the ball then bounces off of the inside of the glove into the air, the runner crosses first base, the ball lands back into the first baseman's glove, and the runner called out. Can you ever recall a play like that? I can't.
For a more complete analysis of this play, please click here.
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