umpire who blew perfect game?
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Seven months ago and 2,400 miles away, the veteran Major League Baseball umpire cost Armando Galarraga a perfect game in Detroit.
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Nolan Ryan has the most career strikeouts in Major League Baseball.
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The error rate for MLB umpires over the last decade (2008–2018) averaged 12.78 percent. For certain strike counts and pitch locations, as discussed earlier, the error rate was much higher. Some years, the incorrect call ratio exceeded 15 percent. In 2018, it was at 9.21 percent.
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Only a handful of women have umpired the predominantly male sport, with the most well-known being Pam Postema, who spent 13 years in the minor leagues. There has never been a woman to umpire at the major-league level.
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President William Howard Taft threw out the first ceremonial pitch on baseball's Opening Day, April 14, 1910.
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Nationals manager Davey Martinez was ejected during the seventh inning of Game 6 of the World Series after a remarkably heated argument with officials.
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Over the 150 years of Major League Baseball history, and over 218,400 games played, there have been 23 official perfect games by the current definition. No pitcher has ever thrown more than one.
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In baseball and softball, there is commonly a head umpire (also known as a plate umpire) who is in charge of calling balls and strikes from behind the plate, who is assisted by one, two, three, or five field umpires who make calls on their specific bases (or with five umpires the bases and the outfield).
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['1906 Chicago Cubs: 116-36 (.763), lost World Series. ... ', '2001 Seattle Mariners: 116-46 (.716), lost in ALCS. ... ', '1998 New York Yankees: 114-48 (.704), won World Series. ... ', '1954 Cleveland Indians: 111-43 (.721), lost World Series. ... ', '1927 New York Yankees: 110-44 (.714), won World Series.']
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Bell, a member of Tim McClelland's crew during the 2013 regular season, is the first active MLB umpire to die since John McSherry suffered a heart attack on the field in Cincinnati on Opening Day in 1996.
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CWS 101: How the College World Series works Since 1959, there have been just 30 perfect games pitched in Division I college baseball, though 12 of those came in seven-inning games, and one came in a five-inning game.
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Craig Michael Kimbrel (born May 28, 1988) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Chicago Cubs of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Atlanta Braves, San Diego Padres, and Boston Red Sox. He is a seven-time All-Star, two-time Reliever of the Year, and a 2018 World Series champion.
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They got a 4-1 win in San Francisco, however, they lost two of their most important players in the span of a couple minutes. Anthony Rizzo was ejected after striking out to end the fifth inning and while he and Joe Maddon were pleading their case, Kris Bryant was also replaced at third base by David Bote.
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Alex Gordon, Ned Yost ejected in Royals' 4-1 loss to the Astros | The Kansas City Star.
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Into 2018, 25 perfect games have been completed through nine innings. This includes Don Larsen's in the World Series as well as games by Harvey Haddix and Pedro Martinez in which the perfect game and no-hitter were lost in extra innings.
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In the long history of major league ball, 40 former players became major league umpires. While never a common career move, it was not uncommon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries but became less so as the 20th century progressed.