Umpire who resides in Washington County owns up to his blown call, which cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game and baseball immortality.

Major League Baseball Umpire Jim Joyce made one of the most critical and and fan-popular calls of his career the other night in Phoenix. But it had nothing to do with America’s pastime. The 24 ...

Two years ago, umpire Jim Joyce blew a call that cost major league pitcher Armando Galarraga baseball immortality. On Monday, Joyce made a call that saved a woman's life.

Jim Joyce was voted the best umpire in Major League Baseball in a poll of 100 players conducted by ESPN the Magazine within the last week. CB Bucknor was voted the game's worst ump.

DETROIT -- Jim Joyce knows what replays bitterly reveal: He blew the most important call of his life. Joyce, a veteran umpire who ruled Cleveland short stop Jason Donald safe at first with two ...

But because the play was not reviewable, a botched call by home-plate umpire Jim Joyce stood as the ruling, marring a September game with postseason implications to the detriment of the Astros.

An Ohio man has had to shut off his phone service because he has the same name as the umpire who accidentally cost a Detroit Tiger pitcher a perfect game earlier in the week. Jim Joyce, of Toledo ...

PHOENIX — Umpire Jim Joyce is being credited with taking quick action to help save the life of a food service worker who collapsed of an apparent heart attack at Chase Field . Russ Amaral, vice ...

Jim Joyce blew the call that cost Tigers righty Armando Galarraga a perfect game against the Indians. MLB should learn from this mistake and expand instant replay.

Most people only know Jim Joyce for botching a perfect game, but he's a very good umpire and in this World Series, it's showing.

-- Jim Joyce, Major League Baseball umpire, 1998, on NPR. Joyce spoke those words to NPR's Melissa Block just after Mark McGwire matched the Major League Baseball home run record set by Roger Maris.

Let’s say Jim Joyce made the worst umpiring call in the history of baseball. Of course, Armando Galarraga of the Detroit Tigers was cheated of a perfect game, but he was cheated honestly, within ...