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Johnson was the home plate umpire for Edwin Jackson 's no-hitter on June 25, 2010. [ 1] He was the home plate umpire when the New York Yankees hit a record three grand slams against the Oakland Athletics on August 25, 2011. He was at third base on June 1, 2012, when Johan Santana no-hit the St. Louis Cardinals, [ 4] making a controversial "foul ...
The 1999 Major League Umpires Association mass resignation was a labor tactic used by 68 Major League Baseball (MLB) umpires, including 66 members of the Major League Umpires Association (MLUA), the official umpires union at the time. Unable to strike because they had a labor agreement in place at the time, 57 umpires formally resigned by ...
Eddings was the home plate umpire for Cal Ripken Jr. 's final major league game on October 6, 2001. He was the second base umpire for the game between the San Francisco Giants and the San Diego Padres on August 4, 2007, at San Diego when Barry Bonds tied Hank Aaron for first place on Major League Baseball's career home run list by hitting his ...
The education of robot umpires has been complicated by an open secret in baseball for the past 150 years: The strike zone called on the field doesn’t match the one mapped out in the rule book.
Home plate umpire Adrian Johnson jogged over and appeared to wave them off. He became more pugnacious and pointed for Weaver to leave the field. The time of first pitch was already three minutes ...
Longtime MLB umpire C.B. Bucknor was the man calling balls and strikes for the American League matchup, but struggled to clearly define his strike zone early on in the ballgame. Houston quickly […]
Field of Dreams Game ( 2021) Lazaro Antonio Díaz Sr. (born March 29, 1963) is an American umpire in Major League Baseball wearing number 63, a reference to his year of birth. He joined the American League 's full-time staff in 1999, and has worked throughout both major leagues since 2000. Díaz was promoted to crew chief for the 2022 season ...
Randy Johnson threw the first and only perfect game, a special subcategory of no-hitter, in Diamondbacks history on May 18, 2004. [4] As defined by Major League Baseball, "in a perfect game, no batter reaches any base during the course of the game." [2] The umpire is also an integral part of any no-hitter. The task of the umpire in a baseball ...