It was reminiscent of when the Phoenix Cardinals All Star kicker (name escapes me) was celebrating after a game winning field goal and tore his ACL. Oops.

Balk off.

My favorite X-off moment was a few years ago to the A's advantage over the Angels when they won on a "Walk Off Flubbed Return Throw."

Bottom of the ninth, tie game. Francisco Rodriguez doesn't like the ball call on the pitch he'd just thrown and is stomping around a little bit and only makes a half-hearted backhanded stab at catching the return throw from the catcher. It bounces off his glove and gets far enough away that the guy on third scored and game over.

Heh, I remember that one, amusing.

I liked this one because a game or two before, Casey Blake seemingly got himself to the brink of being tossed out of the game for trying to talk the first base ump into a balk call. Now here he is a day or two later doing the same thing and it wins the game.

Ouch.

And what the hell's up with the pitching? The end of the steroid era can't be responsible for no-hitters.

Ouch indeed

And the pitching comment is further corroborated by the 14 inning one run game victory over the D-Backs today

And they won 1-0 in 10 yesterday. Today is actually the 5th game so far this season to go into extra frames without no runs, including an April game between the Mets and Cardinals that was scoreless after 18 innings. Then they both scored one run in the 19th.

Don't know if that is an unusual number of scoreless games, though.

More liberal strike zone from the umps?

Hmm, signs are pointing to the commissioner overturning the call and ruling it a perfect game.

Don't know how I feel about that.

I am mixed.

They change hits to errors and errors to hits post event regularly. But this is officially changing a call of an umpire.....certainly a much more radical step.

I think it more preferable, rather than changing the call, is to make some form of NFL like replay challengable calls that can be dealt with at the time. The NBA has it for time expiration calls and three point checks. Why not have it in MLB?