Last Updated: October 27, 2023, 00:30 IST
ARLINGTON, Texas: Bill Miller and Alfonso Márquez can be joined by 5 first-time World Series umpires when the Texas Rangers play the Arizona Diamondbacks beginning Friday night time.
Miller and Márquez every can be working his fifth World Series. Miller would be the umpire crew chief and would work the plate for a Game 7.
Márquez can be at first base within the opener, joined by D.J. Reyburn behind the plate, David Rackley at second, Brian Knight at third, Vic Carapazza in left area and Miller in proper, Major League Baseball mentioned Thursday.
Quinn Wolcott would be the reserve umpire for the opener and will name balls and strikes for Game 2. He can be adopted behind the plate by Márquez, Rackley, Knight and Carapazza.
Wolcott, 37, was essentially the most correct at balls and strikes this season at 96% amongst umpires working the plate for a couple of sport, in keeping with umpscorecards.com. Miller was at 94.1%, Knight 94%, Rackley 93.9%, Carapazza at 93.7% and Márquez and Reyburn at 93.5% every.
Miller, 56, additionally labored the Series in 2010, ’13, ‘17 and ’20, and he was crew chief in 2020. Márquez, 51, umpired on the Series in 2006, ’11, ‘15 and ’21.
Knight is 49, Reyburn 47, Carapazza 44 and Rackley 42.
All seven Series umpires labored this 12 months’s Division Series.
Todd Tichenor and Lance Barrett would be the video assessment umpires at MLB’s workplace in New York.
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