Armando Galarraga

Armando Galarraga is a Venezuelan former professional baseball pitcher. Galarraga made his Major League Baseball (MLB) debut with the Texas Rangers on September 15, 2007. He was traded to the Detroit Tigers at the end of the 2007 season and also played in MLB for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Houston Astros. On June 2, 2010, while playing for the Tigers, he was deprived of a perfect game by an incorrect call made by first-base umpire Jim Joyce in the top of the ninth inning with two outs, the basis for the book Nobody’s Perfect.