One prime example of situational irony was in Armando Galarraga's "perfect game" on June 2nd, 2010. Armando Galarraga had thrown a perfect game up through two outs in the ninth. He faces Cleveland Indian Jason Donald. Donald hits a grounder towards first. Miguel Cabrera is there to field the ball and get it to Armando who is covering first. The throw was in time to get the runner out for the third and final out of the game. Once Galarraga catches the ball, he looks over to Jim Joyce, first base umpire to make sure the runner is out. Here is where the situational irony places in. The play was close, but everyone in the stadium, including the Indians, knew Donald was out. However, Joyce makes the gesture that Donald was safe. Everyone was looking for and expecting Joyce to call him out because it is the final out of a perfect game. No matter who it is, people tend to begin rooting for pitchers who are close to completing no-hitters and perfect games. This is why it is ironic. Everyone expected him to call the runner out and Galarraga gets his perfect game. What really happened, Jim Joyce made a stand-alone call and was heckled horrendously for it.
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