Sentences with word «umpiring»

No one really anticipated the 10 - minute spectacle of umpires in headphones.

Rich Rieker, director of umpiring for Major League Baseball.

The tables below display the five most profitable umpires for home teams, road teams, overs and unders since the start of the 2005 season.

By likening his job to that of a home plate umpire who has little discretion to «interpret» pitches, Roberts was painting the law as something that is «objective» and «non-partisan» and not, to momentarily switch sports analogies, a «political football.»

Anyone who wonders why Congress is more unpopular than a myopic baseball umpire who hates the home team need only look on page 1,967 of the omnibus spending bill.

It is the political will of the government of the day, as well as a genuinely independent electoral umpire in Nigeria's case, the Independent National Electoral Commission.

His coach, Terry Thompson, has had a running argument with umpires over the number of warmup pitches Butz is allowed.

The team found the same pattern in baseball umpires calling strikes, and immigration workers recommending asylum.

As certain as baseball umpires?)

It acts as umpire between truth and truth, and, taking into account the nature and importance of each, assigns to all their due order of precedence.

American League umpires don't take pride in their work.

In baseball, the home plate umpire does give the home pitcher the benefit of the doubt on close pitches.

Cold, haughty and vigorously hostile, he bullies anyone who gets in his way, lobbing insults at umpires, openly mocking lesser opponents and snubbing greater ones.

Great for use by umpires in baseball or softball games.

When writing opinions, the justices would do well to ask: In subsequent cases, is the federal trial judge to behave more like the Herculean judge or more like the judge - as - umpire when applying our decision?

It was treated as a live ball, however, and he's out at first since that kind of play isn't reviewable, and an appeal to the third base umpire didn't change the call.

During the 8th inning of the Boston Red Sox - New York Yankees game on Sunday night, MLB Umpire Brian O'Nara took a fastball from Franklin Morales to the throat.

The electoral umpire said that those who...

The day that Max Patkin stops kissing base runners or crawling through catchers» legs or covering himself with dirt or getting the heave - hohoho from umpires, chances are that's the day he takes the Big Pratfall.

We certainly can't blame her for doing her best John McEnroe impression after umpire makes bade call.

Typically being a good over umpire means calling a very tight strike zone, and it will be interesting to see if that zone beings to expand at all in his third season.

To estimate pitch location - specific differences in run expectancies, Mills incorporated pitch - level data on umpire ball - strike calls (via PITCHf / x) from the 2008 - 2016 MLB seasons into what is known as a generalized additive model.

«I was just wondering if he [the chair umpire] saw the same mist in the air that I saw,» Roddick said to AP.

I like umpires a lot.

Just over a week ago in this space, we used our Bet Labs software to determine which umpires have been the most profitable for home teams.

The game needs a third umpire like cricket and rugby league, it «s does n`t slow the game that much and helps keep the bastards honest.

Manager Gil Hodges, who had complained about Hamilton earlier this season (SI, July 31), bolted from the dugout and jawed with Plate Umpire Jim Odom.

Audits of umpires using numbers from PITCHf / x is resulting in humans improving their own game, as well as poorer performers being weeded out.

Coaches, players, even umpires call me that.

For those who aren't familiar, baseball utilizes a four - man umpire crew for every series.

Certifications Attended and graduated from Harry Wendelstedt School for Professional Umpires in Janu...

Some dubious umpire decisions and Lancaster's solid defence meant MMU let the goal difference decrease again putting more pressure on the game to win.

But the best is the enemy of the good; the most imperfect machine - vision system currently available would probably do a better job at calling strikes at the bottom of the strike zone (especially on breaking pitches) than human umpires do.

Frank Dascoli has been criticized and laughed at, but nearly everyone admits he is the best umpire in the National League

«I urge you to be above board and truly live up to public expectation as independent umpires.

There are a number of umps who tend to favor pitchers on borderline calls and my hypothesis was that Phil Cuzzi, Ron Kulpa, Bill Miller, Ted Barret and Doug Eddings — who are renowned for having the largest strike zones in baseball — would be among the most profitable umpires for betting unders.

Upset over «escalating verbal attacks» on its members, the World Umpires Association issued a statement and wore white wristbands in protest across Major League Baseball games on Saturday.

The project umpire role is based on dispute resolution boards (DRBs), which have been used in the construction industry for more than 40 years.

The plate umpire stands there behind that balloon and calls every pitch from the same angle.

During the Los Angeles Dodgers - Los Angeles Angels game on Monday night, the home plate umpire took a shot right to the...

Flaherty can be seen in roles both large and small in Death on the Diamond (1934), Pride of the Yankees (1942), It Happened in Flatbush (1942), The Stratton Story (1949, as the Western All - Stars coach), The Jackie Robinson Story (1950) and The Winning Team (1952, as legendary umpire Bill Klem).

Matches on all other courts were put on hold, but Williams was in the middle of a major rally, and the chair umpire decided to let the match go on, despite the players» clear trepidation over the condition of the court.

Tim Welke, secretary - treasurer of the World Umpires Association, the new union that rose from the ashes of the Richie Phillips - led group that collapsed after the resignation fiasco, says such a small number easily could be absorbed by Major League Baseball.

According to him, while they will be expected to interact with various stakeholders, including partisan actors, they must also be «very firm and courageous on the side of law as well as our regulations and guidelines as required of you as unbiased umpire.»

No, I'm not talking about the terrible call that softball umpire made recently.

Seconds before the Boston Red Sox's Greg Harris delivered a pitch to Yankee batter Mike Stanley, with two outs in the ninth and the Sox leading 3 - 1, third base umpire Tim Welke spotted the boy running onto the field.

After beating Jurgen Zopp at Wimbledon, Ernests Gulbis had a weird / interesting conversation with a reporter about umpires.

Since umpires are (a) human and (b) granted wide discretion to judge the degree of transgression, it is only natural that they often respond to the sum total of a player's «offenses.»

It was the same much - delayed suspension that was handed down last November, along with a $ 10,000 fine, for his behavior in Oakland in Game 4 of the American League playoffs, when he allegedly cursed plate umpire Terry Cooney and shoved crew chief Jim Evans after being ejected.