Jim Joyce was voted the best umpire in Major League Baseball in a poll of 100 players conducted by ESPN the Magazine. Joyce made national headlines when he missed a call at first base that cost ...

Jim Joyce was voted the best umpire in Major League Baseball in a poll of 100 players conducted by ESPN the Magazine. Joyce made national headlines when he missed a call at first base that cost ...

The day after one of the biggest botched calls in recent baseball history, attention began to shift from major league umpire Jim Joyce's mistake to his integrity, a trait familiar to people who ...

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. The 24-year veteran 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 ...

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.

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 ...

Jim Joyce is a 24-year veteran of Major League Baseball who is probably best known as the umpire who robbed Detroit’s Armando Galarraga of a perfect game in 2010. Until now. Now his claim to ...

Related: MLB plans to review obstruction rule | Scott Miller 2011 column on Joyce BOSTON - Ask most casual baseball fans if they know who umpire Jim Joyce is and you'll likely be met with some ...

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.

ST. LOUIS – Jim Joyce didn't even have to think. "The feet were up in the air," the umpire said, "and immediately and instinctually I called obstruction." Best known for a blown call at first ...