MLB refuses to give Armando Galarraga his perfect game, but it did name him the American League Player of the Week. The MLB-sanctioned story, however, reads like an article in Pravda. It doesn’t mention the world-famous blown call:

On June 2nd, Galarraga lost a bid for a perfect game with two outs in the ninth inning, on a play that was ruled an infield hit by Cleveland’s Jason Donald.

Wasn’t there a controversy about this or something? Like maybe indisputable evidence that Galarraga had in fact tossed a perfect game, only to have it wiped away by a human error?

The article does credit “Galarraga’s remarkable display of grace and exemplary sportsmanship” in “an emotional and difficult circumstance,” but readers who see nothing but this article will have no idea what really happened.

UPDATE: From a reader:

Regarding your Corner post on the MLB-sanctioned story on Galarraga’s being named player of the week: In fairness to mlb.com, the piece that you cite is just an MLB press release. mlb.com did publish a story on Galarraga’s player-of-the-week status, and it does center on the call:

Bravo to MLB for admitting the truth at least once–and continued jeers for the denial of reality in its “player of the week” announcement.