MLB umpire Hunter Wendelstedt was able to walk off the field Wednesday after taking a line drive to his head while working first base during the game between the Minnesota Twins and New York Mets.

MLB umpire Mark Ripperger is receiving praise for how he called a recent game. Ripperger was behind home plate for Thursday's game between the Kansas City Royals and the Minnesota Twins.

Hunter Wendelstedt, serving as the first-base umpire for Wednesday's game between the New York Mets and Minnesota Twins, is "fine" after being struck in the head by a foul ball during the late ...

The scary situation involving Wendelstedt is far from the first example of an MLB umpire being caught on the wrong side of a play. The fact that Wendelstedt was able to walk off on his own power ...

Mark Ripperger apparently does not miss. The MLB umpire Ripperger pulled off a very impressive feat on Thursday during the Kansas City Royals-Minnesota Twins game. Ripperger was behind home plate ...

Per the Associated Press, Wendelstedt is in his 28th major league season as an umpire. Following his exit, second base umpire Adam Hamari moved to first for the remainder of the game.

Ho hum. But over the course of the somewhat-mundane proceedings of the game, MLB umpiring history was made. Home plate umpire Mark Ripperger on Thursday night called a perfect game, just the ...

A brief moment of venting under one umpire can become a total explosion under another. Which is why situation management has its own dedicated section of the curriculum at MLB Umpire Prospect ...

Umpire Hunter Wendelstedt left the game he was working Wednesday after suffering a scary injury on a line drive. Wendelstedt was working first base during the game between the New York Mets and ...

Veteran MLB umpire Hunter Wendelstedt was forced to leave Wednesday's Mets-Twins game early after taking a 90mph line drive to the side of the head. At the top of the seventh inning, Mets center ...