At no point last season did Pete Alonso ever look as good as he's looked at the plate to start his 2025 campaign for the Mets ...

In fact, a new system might be rolling in by the end of the weekend for the Cincinnati Reds infield, with Spencer Steer on ...

Hunter Wendelstedt, serving as the first-base umpire for Wednesday's game between the New York Mets and Minnesota Twins, is ...

The MLB has had its fair share of controversial umpire calls, especially over the past week. In Sunday's Yankees-Rays game, ...

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On April 10 in Kansas City, Mo., Ripperger did the job as well as it can possibly be done: He worked a perfect game behind the plate. The Umpire Scorecards website, which uses MLB data from ...

If the league can’t outright suspend Bacon, it must consider preventing him from working behind the plate. A missed call at ...

with a three-umpire staff (first, third, and home plate) then finishing the game. Wendelstedt became a big-league umpire in 1999 and later worked games with his father, Harry, who served as a ...

New York Yankees second baseman Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected from Thursday’s game against the Tampa Bay Rays in the seventh inning after arguing balls and strikes with home-plate umpire John Bacon.

Chisholm was ejected in the seventh inning after he argued a third strike call from plate umpire John Bacon. After arguing at the plate, Chisholm was thrown out of the game for his fifth career ...