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Blown Detroit Tigers call still haunts Jim Joyce, but he has learned to forgive himself

Let's look back at former Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga's near-perfect game on June 2, 2010, at Comerica Park. Wochit

Two days before his life changed, Jim Joyce woke up and had coffee with his mom.

He knows exactly what he did that day, May 31, 2010, when he arrived in his hometown of Toledo, staying with his mom in advance of a three-game series between the Detroit Tigers and Indians at Comerica Park. His father, James Joyce, who worked in the Army air corps, had died a year earlier, and Joyce went see his headstone for the first time.