Joe West ties MLB record for most games umpired

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Main League Baseball umpire Joe West is on monitor to interrupt Corridor of Famer Invoice Klem’s report for probably the most regular-season video games by an umpire this week. When West took the sector as first base umpire in Monday night time’s recreation between the St. Louis Cardinals and Chicago White Sox (STL-CHW GameTracker), he tied Klem’s mark together with his 5,375th profession MLB recreation.

Klem umpired within the Nationwide League for 37 years earlier than retiring in 1941, and was posthumously inducted into the Baseball Corridor of Fame in 1953. 

The 68-year-old West made his MLB debut in 1976 on the age of 23, and plans to retire following the 2023 season. Throughout West’s prolonged profession — his 43-year tenure ranks because the longest by an MLB umpire — he spent 23 years umpiring within the Nationwide League earlier than he moved to masking your complete league in 2002. 

A few of West’s notable video games embody working Nolan Ryan’s fifth profession no-hitter in 1981, Willie McCovey’s five hundredth residence run in 1978, Félix Hernández’s good recreation in 2012, and Albert Pujols’ four-hundredth profession residence run in 2013. West’s profession spans six of baseball’s 10 commissioners: Bowie Kuhn, Peter Ueberroth, Bart Giamatti, Fay Vincent, Bud Selig, and Rob Manfred.

West was within the information earlier this yr when he was awarded $500,000 in damages in a defamation lawsuit towards former MLB catcher Paul Lo Duca.

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