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Dan Iassogna will be the plate umpire and crew chief for Major League Baseball's All-Star Game in Atlanta on Tuesday night.
NEW YORK (AP) — Paul Clemons, Emil Jiménez and Alex MacKay were hired Friday as fulltime major league umpires and Major League Baseball said Dan Merzel and Nate Tomlinson had been added to the ...
Umpires for years were graded on an internal system that gives them a buffer zone of two inches, nearly the width of a baseball. A ball two inches off the plate called a strike counted as an ...
For the first time in his professional baseball career, Dan Wilson was ejected from a baseball game. The former Seattle Mariners catcher and current manager was thrown out by home plate umpire Laz ...
Paul Clemons, Emil Jiménez and Alex MacKay were hired Friday as full-time major league umpires, and Major League Baseball said Dan Merzel and Nate Tomlinson had been added to the staff last June 16.
He even informed MLB Umpires Association president Dan Bellino, who ended up bringing up the potential rule change in union conversation with the league.
Umpires misjudgments spark controversy over Lee Jung-hoos calls in MLB games Strange rulings surrounding San Francisco Giants Lee Jung-hoo continue.
Umpires Ryan Wills, Brennan Miller, Chris Segal and Charlie Ramos.(WTOP/Dan Ronan) In the D.C. region, conversations often start with, “What do you do?” WTOP’s series “Working Capital ...
The Dan Patrick Show crew discusses Blue Jays pitcher Max Scherzer's recent comments about MLB’s automated ball-strike challenge system, discussing why veteran pitchers like Scherzer usually prefer ...
This spring, MLB players can challenge ball and strike calls. The camera-based system is only an experiment for now — but it has the baseball world wondering where to draw the line with technology.