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An MLB umpiring crew meeting with the managers from each team before a 2017 game. In baseball, the umpire is the person charged with officiating the game, including beginning and ending the game, enforcing the rules of the game and the grounds, making judgment calls on plays, and handling disciplinary actions. [1]
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.
Toma’s reputation won him the job of preparing the field for the first Super Bowl in 1967, as team owners from both the NFL and the American Football League contracted with him to head the grounds crew at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. He was given free rein by then-NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle to decorate the field however he chose. [8]
Before the 2014 season, he was named a crew chief by Major League Baseball. [8] Miller was the home plate umpire for Miami Marlins pitcher Edinson Vólquez's no-hitter against the Arizona Diamondbacks on June 3, 2017. [9] In 2019, he was named President of the Major League Baseball Umpires Association, succeeding Joe West.
Roger Bossard is the head groundskeeper at Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox.. Bossard joined the White Sox in 1967 working as an assistant to his father, Gene Bossard, and became the official head groundskeeper when his father retired in 1983.
A member of the Cincinnati Reds' grounds crew was rescued Sunday after a run-in with baseball's notorious "tarp monster" as she and others covered the Great American Ball Park infield during a ...
Miami manager Skip Schumaker was seen letting the grounds crew hear his opinion during the long rain delay. ... Close to 1 a.m., the rain hadn't let up, and MLB announced the game was suspended.
Robert Lance Barksdale (born March 8, 1967) is an American umpire in Major League Baseball (MLB). He began umpiring in the major leagues in 2000 [1] and joined the full-time major league staff in 2006. Barksdale wears #23, which was previously worn by Rick Reed. He was promoted to crew chief in the 2023 season. [2]