I am in favor of giving him the perfect game.
I am opposed to replay.
This is not a slippery slope, and it does not set a precedent.
Next time the 27th out of a perfect game is botched, and everybody including the runner and umpire are in agreement that it was botched, that will be the next time that a ruling of changing this outcome could be used as a precedent.
But, as timzcardz says, the fact that it won't go in the record book does not change what he did. If I had been at that game, I would have left ready to die happy, knowing that I had seen a perfect game, with an extra out thrown in for good measure.
Harvey Haddix and Ernie Shore were probably getting bored talking to each other, now they can be a threesome.
Doug
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