MLB Umpire and Everyone Else Totally Forgot the Count On Strangest Walk of Season
MLB season is just a few days old but its safe to say we saw what will be the strangest walk of the entire year Saturday ...
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MLB Umpire Faces Major Backlash After 20 Blown Calls in Mets vs. Astros Showdown, Fans Demand Overhaul
Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...
MLB’s Umpire School Is Adapting to a New Era of Increased Scrutiny
Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.
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Is This the Last Season Baseball Umpires Really Matter?
Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.
Opposing teams unite to rally around baseball umpire with cancer
In sports, sometimes there are things that are bigger than the game, as was the case between two high school baseball teams.
Robot umpires take to the field for baseball's spring training | The Excerpt
The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...
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The automated strike zone appeal went well in spring training, according to umpire Chris Conroy
Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...
Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up
The sport has seen a flurry of rule adjustments in just the past decade and a half, with more on the horizon. America's ...
Blue Jays manager calls out umpire in hilarious hot mic moment: ‘How the f–k are you gonna call that?’
Blue Jays manager John Schneider was not happy with a first-inning call on Friday night. And everyone at home heard him.
What we learned from MLB’s spring robot-umpire test: Players, managers, execs weigh in
What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!
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Alabama Fined $25K After Coach Goes Ballistic on Umpire
Over the weekend, the Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team hosted the No. 1 ... out of the game for his actions toward the home plate umpire. Not only was Vaughn tossed from Saturday's matchup ...