{"id":3743,"date":"2022-04-02T18:09:26","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T18:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/mlb-umpires-to-use-microphones-to-announce-replay-decisions-usa-today\/"},"modified":"2022-04-02T18:09:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T18:09:26","slug":"mlb-umpires-to-use-microphones-to-announce-replay-decisions-usa-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/02\/mlb-umpires-to-use-microphones-to-announce-replay-decisions-usa-today\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB umpires to use microphones to announce replay decisions &#8211; USA TODAY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this season, Major League Baseball umpires will use a microphone to announce decisions made by the replay booth, the league <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB_PR\/status\/1509878018667331593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">announced Friday<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>MLB says that\u00a0training has been\u00a0held in Arizona and Florida this spring in anticipation of Thursday&#8217;s season openers.\u00a0<br \/>Until now, umpires had revealed their decisions such as safe and out with hand signals.<br \/>MLB <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/mlb-approves-expanded-instant-replay-beginning-with-2014-season\/c-66737912\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">expanded replay review in 2014<\/a> to include\u00a0challenges from managers. Previously, video review was only used for boundary calls on home runs\u00a0\u2014 initiated at the discretion of umpires.<br \/><strong class=gnt_ar_b_al>SPORTS NEWSLETTER:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/profile.usatoday.com\/newsletters\/sports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Sign up now for updates sent to your inbox<\/a><br \/><strong class=gnt_ar_b_al>&#8216;I HAVE A BROKEN HEART&#8217;:<\/strong><a href=\"\/story\/sports\/mlb\/columnist\/bob-nightengale\/2022\/03\/31\/mike-shildt-cardinals-fired-heart-broken\/7228358001\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Mike Shildt bares his soul about being fired by the Cardinals<\/a><br \/>According to reports, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PGFoundation_\/status\/1221835170006716416?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|e|inline click|${u}\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">rule<\/a> was to be implemented during the 2020 season, which was halted and later reduced to 60 games because of the coronavirus pandemic.<br \/>The decision to audibly announce calls by umpires follows\u00a0other sports that have been using technology for years in allowing their\u00a0officials to announce penalties, scoring decisions or coaches challenges to\u00a0help viewers at home and fans at the games understand the game better.\u00a0<br \/>The NFL has been putting a wireless\u00a0microphone on the referee for penalty announcements since 1975 and became a vital part of the game\u00a0once the league reintroduced\u00a0instant replay in 1999.<br \/>The NBA has\u00a0used public address announcers to relay decisions in games, and during telecasts, an official is seen on camera to announce decisions.<br \/>NHL referees were equipped with microphones to announce penalty calls at the start of the 2005 season, and their scope widened with coaches&#8217; challenges that began in 2015.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/mlb\/2022\/04\/01\/mlb-umpires-use-microphones-announce-replay-decisions\/7243022001\/\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Starting this season, Major League Baseball umpires will use a microphone to announce decisions made by the replay booth, the league announced Friday.\u00a0\u00a0MLB says that\u00a0training has been\u00a0held in Arizona and Florida this spring in anticipation of Thursday&#8217;s season openers.\u00a0Until now, umpires had revealed their decisions such as safe and out with hand signals.MLB expanded replay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":869,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/869"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}