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With the immaculate outing, Ripperger became just the second MLB umpire in the Umpire Scorecards era (since 2015) to turn in ...

Let’s give credit where credit is due — especially when it’s this rare. With all the headlines lately dragging MLB umpires through the mud for missed calls, ...

The Royals defeated the Twins on Thursday. Umpire Scorecards shined a light on MLB umpire Mark Ripperger for what they concluded was a perfectly called game.

Umpire Scorecards, which uses MLB's advanced pitch tracking data to rate the accuracy of home-plate umpires and the impact of ...

The Kansas City Royals beat the Minnesota Twins 3-2 on Thursday at Kauffman Stadium. With the win, the Royals are now 7-6 on ...

No, neither the Royals’ Michael Wacha nor the Twins’ Bailey Ober threw a perfect game, which is evident by the final score. The Royals won 3-2, but the perfect game was from home-plate umpire Mark ...

Umpires Ryan Wills, Brennan Miller, Chris Segal and Charlie Ramos.(WTOP/Dan Ronan) In the D.C. region, conversations often start with, “What do you do?” WTOP’s series “Working Capital ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred is pleased with how the automated ball-strike system experiment went during spring training. Speaking to Michael S. Schmidt of the New York Times, Manfred called the ...

Referee Tra Blake will no longer be a referee. FootballZebras.com reports that the NFL has reassigned Blake to umpire. Blake had spent three years in that position, after previously serving as an ...

Kolkata Knight Riders posted an 80-run victory over Sunrisers Hyderabad at Eden Gardens. Pat Cummins returned the bowling figures of 1-44 and made 14 with the bat. Travis Head was dismissed for 4 ...

Pat Gelsinger's leadership at Intel ended abruptly as the company's market position deteriorated, marked by significant strategic missteps and revenue plummeting. New CEO Lip-Bu Tan aims to ...