Major League Baseball said on Monday it had fired top umpire Pat Hoberg for violating strict league rules concerning gambling. The league said in a statement a decision to dismiss Hoberg made in ...

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...

Reliever Justin Topa suffered an arm injury during Wednesday’s Grapefruit League game against the Orioles. Topa was removed ...

NEW YORK — Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting ...

Kirby Lee-Imagn Images In February, Major League Baseball fired umpire Pat Hoberg after it was revealed he shared a legal sportsbook account with a professional gambler. Hoberg appealed his ...

A baseball umpire from London, Ont., is among three Canadians selected to umpire at the 2025 Little League World Series tournament in Williamsport, Pa., this summer. Rob Macdonald, 35 ...

Major League Baseball is testing a new system that allows players to challenge a home plate umpire's call. The automated ball-strike system (ABS) has been used for minor league games, but it's ...

One of the major sports media stories to watch in the coming month is whether ESPN decides to opt out of its current deal with Major League Baseball. It has long been anticipated that ESPN ...

NEW YORK — Paul Clemons, Emil Jiménez, and Alex MacKay were hired Friday as fulltime major league umpires, and Major League Baseball said ... the first woman to umpire a big league spring ...