Armando Galarraga On Near Perfect Game

After umpire Bill Hohn displayed some egregiously bad judgment in ejecting Houston pitcher Roy Oswalt in the third inning of a game with Washington last week, Major League Baseball vice president Bob Watson made it clear that Hohn could expect to be addressed in a "very stern" way.

The commissioner's office might have to invent a new adjective for the conversation that Mike Port, MLB's vice president of umpiring, is about to have with Jim Joyce.

It's not an exaggeration to say that two themes have predominated in the first two months of the baseball season -- perfect games and questionable umpiring. For one mind-blowing, Twilight Zone-esque sequence of events Wednesday night, those dual storylines coalesced in the Comerica Park infield.

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