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 ...

Apr 30, 2023; Mexico City, Mexico; Home plate umpire Pat Hoberg (31) calls an out in the fifth inning during a MLB World Tour game between the San Diego Padres and the San Francisco Giants at ...

Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by MLB for failing to "uphold the integrity of the game" after he shared a legal sports betting account with a professional poker player "who did, in fact, bet on ...

Pawol last year became the first woman to umpire a big league spring training ... and will be part of Mark Wegner’s crew. MLB has 76 full-time staff umpires, and uses fill-ins on crews for ...