June 2, 2010 will be a day that Armando Galaragga and the fans of Detroit Tigers baseball will not soon forget.  That night, Galaragga came one play short of being awarded a perfect game, a Herculean feat that has been accomplished only 20 times in the more than 100-year history of major league baseball.  On what would have been the final play of that game, Galaragga’s attempt to keep the final batter from reaching base was ruled unsuccessful, and his perfect game was instead given a less-spectacular distinction of being only one of ten nearly-perfect games to be spoiled by the final batter.

Worse still for Tigers fans, the umpire who called the runner safe admitted upon review of footage after the game that the runner should have been ruled “out,” and Galaragga should have had his perfect game.  But in a case that is eerily similar to the one we reported on in this week’s Cyber Risk Report (CRR) about a pedestrian who sued Google, it would be the disgruntled fans eager to seek revenge on the mistaken umpire who would craft the nightmare from which a Toledo man would hope to soon awake.

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