{"id":929680,"date":"2026-10-12T01:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929680\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T01:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T01:56:20","slug":"mlb-umpire-crews-revealed-for-dodgers-vs-brewers-nlcs-and-guardians-vs-rays-alcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/929680\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB Umpire Crews Revealed for Dodgers vs. Brewers NLCS and Guardians vs. Rays ALCS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Major League Baseball announced the umpire crews for the 2026 American League and National League Championship Series on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">According to the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong mui-mlpnpn\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/mlb-playoffs-umpires-f6e7d2c6544ac3dad70fb3f53fc73725\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>, Bill Miller will be the crew chief for the ALCS between the Cleveland Guardians and Tampa Bay Rays, while Mark Wegner will serve as the crew chief for the NLCS between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Miller will be joined by Jordan Baker, Nestor Ceja, Chad Fairchild, Adam Hamari, Mark Ripperger and Carlos Torres, while Wegner&#8217;s crew is made up of Ryan Additon, Edwin Moscoso, Alan Porter, David Rackley, Chris Segal and John Tumpane.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Per the AP, the 59-year-old Miller will umpire the 10th LCS of his career, which is tied for the third-most in MLB history. His 126 career playoff games umpired is also second among active umps and fifth on the all-time list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Wegner, 54, is set to work his sixth LCS after serving as the crew chief during last year&#8217;s World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium mui-m06sf4\">Game 1 of the NLCS on Sunday night in Milwaukee will feature Moscoso behind the plate, while Ceja will be the home-plate umpire for Game 1 of the ALCS on Monday night in St. Petersburg, Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball announced the umpire crews for the 2026 American League and National League Championship Series on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":929681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-929680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/929681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}