Multiple Yankees still say they are against increasing instant replay in the aftermath of Armando Galarraga’s umpire-ruined perfect game.
“If we put it in any further than it is now,” Curtis Granderson said, “we’re going to have to open it up to everything else and you’re never going to stop.”
Derek Jeter said, “I don’t know. When does it start, when does it stop? Do you have a flag that you throw from the bench?”
Joe Girardi also said he doesn’t want expanded replay because “the rhythm of the game is extremely important.”
That said, the manager isn’t necessarily opposed to MLB looking at last night’s controversial play in Detroit and examining whether anything should be done. Girardi’s logic is that it was an historic play and doing something about it “doesn’t really change the outcome of the game.”
“I’ve got to say we’ll never see it again in our lifetime,” he said.
Granderson, who played with Galarraga in Detroit, said he doesn’t think the final call should be changed, arguing that other past game-ending calls would then have to be changed, as well.