In the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 6 of the 1985 World Series, the St. Louis Cardinals were leading the Kansas City Royals 1-0. The Cardinals were ahead in the “Show-Me Series” 3-2, and were just three outs away from clinching their second title in four years. Jorge Orta hit a grounder to first, which Jack Clark of St. Louis fielded cleanly; rookie closer Todd Worrell, covering first, took Clark’s throw. Orta was obviously out, but umpire Don Denkinger called him safe. Every replay showed that Denkinger got it wrong by a mile. The Royals rallied in the ninth to win 2-1, and then blanked the Cards 11-0 in Game 7, giving Kansas City its first, and only, World Series title. “I had 30 great years … and I had one call that’s all anybody wants to talk about,” Denkinger told the New York Post after Jim Joyce’s erroneous two-out call on June 2, 2010, cost Detroit’s Armando Galarraga a perfect game. “It’s not right. But it’s the way the game’s played, and that’s what happens.” In the aftermath of the Galarraga affair, several websites commented that Joyce had a “Denkinger moment.”