Tag Archives: Umpire

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Yankees manager Aaron Boone ejected after fan mouths off to home plate umpire  Yahoo Sports Source link

Andrew Benefield lived the baseball dream on Monday. The Dallas Baptist redshirt freshman stepped up to the plate with two outs in the seventh inning of an NCAA baseball tournament game against Oregon State. The bases were loaded as his Patriots trailed, 5-2. The winner would advance to the Super Regionals. The loser would go home.  When Beavers pitcher Joey Mundt sent a first-pitch fastball over the plate, Benefield responded with this: Umpire runs out of patience  Yep, that’s a go-ahead grand… Source link

Brian O’Nora faces fines and jail time if convicted on both charges. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan) Veteran MLB umpire Brian O’Nora pleaded not guilty on two misdemeanor solicitation charges on Tuesday following his arrest in an Ohio sex sting operation during the weekend, according to USA Today’s Tom Schad. O’Nora was reportedly released on a $5,000 bond and is due back in court on March 3, nearly a week after the beginning of spring training, as currently scheduled. When reached by Yahoo Sports… Source link

MLB umpire Brian O’Nora was one of 14 arrested by an Ohio human trafficking task force. (Photo by Jason O. Watson/Getty Images) Brian O’Nora, an MLB umpire since 1999, was arrested over the weekend as part of a sex-sting operation in Ohio, a story first reported by TMZ Sports and verified by NJ Advance Media. O’Nora was one of 14 men arrested by a human trafficking task force in Liberty Township after allegedly soliciting a prostitute online. When reached by NJ Advance Media, a… Source link