Sentence examples for blown a call from inspiring English sources

It's not a good thing if I had blown a call the night before.

The worst umpire of all time is the one who has just blown a call against the Tigers.

They were blunt words, the kind that might not play so well in the United States, where, earlier this month, the major league umpire Jim Joyce wasted little time in admitting to reporters that he had blown a call that cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.

-Philip Bump explains how the AP may have blown a call in a Wisconsin House primary.

Or when he emphatically defended Oliver North as an American hero, arguing with the inquisitors on television as if they were umpires who had blown a call.

At one juncture, Mitchell said: "When a referee admits he blew a call, I respect that.

Fortunately, he appears to be O.K., and no N.H.L. referee blew a call on the play.

INSIDE PITCH Jose Reyes received an on-field apology from the umpire Marvin Hudson for blowing a call Wednesday that prompted a tirade from Reyes, and Reyes apologized for overreacting..

The American baseball pitcher Armando Galarraga lost his chance at a perfect game when an umpire blew a call on what should have been the final out.

The umpire Jim Joyce blew a call at first base with two out in the ninth inning Wednesday night in Detroit, costing the Tigers Armando Galarragaa a perfect game.

There was a time that baseball umps would never, ever, ever, ever admit to blowing a call, let alone talk to a pool reporter after a game.