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Patrick Hoberg (born September 11, 1986) is an American former Major League Baseball (MLB) umpire. In the 2022 World Series he called the first ever “perfect game” by an umpire by not getting a single ball or strike call incorrect. Hoberg was widely regarded as the best ball-strike umpire in MLB. [1]
The first occurred in the 1960 World Series: he was umpiring when Bill Mazeroski of the Pittsburgh Pirates hit the home run that allowed the Pirates to defeat the New York Yankees. His second was during the 1966 World Series; he was the umpire during what turned out to be Sandy Koufax's final game, before his retirement a few weeks later. [4]
Porter later served as the right field umpire in the 2015 MLB All-Star Game in Cincinnati. Porter was chosen as one of the umpires for the 2019 World Series, his first, between the Houston Astros and the Washington Nationals. Porter was the home plate umpire for Game 1, right field umpire for Game 2, and served as the replay official for the ...
He was the home plate umpire for Nolan Ryan's second no-hitter in Detroit on July 15, 1973. [9] Luciano served two full terms as president of the Major League Umpires Association, and was one of its principal leaders and spokesmen during the 1979 umpires strike. [1] "The umpires have kept this game honest for 100 years," he explained to a ...
Major League Baseball's 2024 World Series begins Friday in Los Angeles, a highly-anticipated matchup between the Dodgers and New York Yankees.. The league announced its nine-man umpiring crew for ...
Umpire Pat Hoberg is the latest professional sports figure caught in a betting scandal. The 38-year-old Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling ...
The University of Pennsylvania (Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained leaders in ...
Williams, a four-time World Series champion with the New York Yankees, has a bachelor’s degree from the Manhattan School of Music. He performed with the New York Philharmonic in April. “Even though there’s a lot of people who do baseball for the rest of their lives and they’re involved in the game one way or another, I think of those ...