Playoff Umpiring Crews

[johnSandlin]

Just checked Joe West's website, and he has all of the Division Series umpirng crews, plus both League Championship Series Crews as well.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Opening in San Diego is Gerry Davis, Bill Welke, Brian Gorman, Greg Gibson, Wally Bell, and Marty Foster.

[SanDiegoSteve]

To save everyone the trouble of going to the website, here are the assignments:

Opening in Shea Stadium for the first round of the playoffs is: John Hirschbeck - Crew Chief, Ted Barrett, Eric Cooper, Ron Kulpa, Mike Winters, and Brian O'Nora

Opening in Yankee Stadium will be Tim McClelland - Crew Chief, Laz Diaz, Alfonso Marquez, Paul Emmel, Larry Poncino, and Larry Vanover

Opening in San Diego is Gerry Davis - Crew Chief, Bill Welke, Brian Gorman, Greg Gibson, Wally Bell, and Marty Foster

Opening in Minnesota is Randy Marsh - Crew Chief, Kerwin Danley, Mike Everette, Ed Rapuano, Tim Tschida, and Tony Randazzo

The American League Championship Series will be umpired by Gerald Crawford - Crew Chief, Hunter Wendelstedt, Darryl Cousins, Chuck Merriweather, Gary Cederstom, and Mike Reilly

The National League Championship Series will be umpired by Tim Welke - Crew Chief, Jim Joyce, Jerry Layne, Fieldin Culbreth, Jeff Kellogg, and Gary Darling

[TussAgee11]

No West....

interesting...

he made 2 controversial calls last year in the NYY LAA series, wonder if this played a part in it... probably not.

Just odd he wouldn't be in there, no?

[mattmets]

Not to play the "XXX should have made it over YYY" game, but how do 3 umpires (West, Nelson, Hernandez) go from WS assignments to none? Just seems odd.

[TussAgee11]

Originally Posted by mattmets

Not to play the "XXX should have made it over YYY" game, but how do 3 umpires (West, Nelson, Hernandez) go from WS assignments to none? Just seems odd.

As for the Angel thing... well...

he's not an MLB umpire, and should not be on the game's greatest stage.

JMO

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by PWL

Larry Poncino is a Joe West clone. Saw him the other night on TV. Situation is no outs and R1. Vlad Guerrero hits a flare into left field that U3 goes out on. Meanwhile R1 is off on the the hit. Poncino is PU. I didn't think he was ever going to get there to make a call on the play at 3B. He was still in foul territory as the tag was being made. He then cut inside fair territory to make the call of safe. Kind of bad mechanics for a post season umpire if I say so myself.

Poncino blew a call at 2nd base on the final play in the Padres/DBacks game today. Bochy came out to argue, and Poncino realized he blew the call and changed his safe call to out, giving the win to the Padres.

They play was a hot smash to Barfield's (F4) left. His throw pulled F3 off the base, but Gonzalez alertly threw to 2nd in time for the force, but Poncino, thinking it was a tag play, called the runner safe. That was the out that clinched the NL West. The score at the time was 7-6 after Hoffman nearly blew the save with back-to-back HRs.

[SanDiegoSteve]

Originally Posted by TussAgee11

As for the Angel thing... well...

he's not an MLB umpire, and should not be on the game's greatest stage.

JMO

Uh, the last time I looked at Angel's shirt, there was a MLB patch on it.

[scottyman51]

Originally Posted by mattmets

Not to play the "XXX should have made it over YYY" game, but how do 3 umpires (West, Nelson, Hernandez) go from WS assignments to none? Just seems odd.

Wasnt it west,Eddings,and Hernandez...not nelson. Dougy eddings is just as bad as Hernandez....

[mattmets]

Originally Posted by scottyman51

Wasnt it west,Eddings,and Hernandez...not nelson. Dougy eddings is just as bad as Hernandez....

No. It wasn't.

[edman42]

Very surprised Scott and Froemming did not get an assignment

[tjones1]

Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve

Opening in Shea Stadium for the first round of the playoffs is: John Hirschbeck - Crew Chief, Ted Barrett, Eric Cooper, Ron Kulpa, Mike Winters, and Brian O'Nora

That's my favorite crew for the opening round.

[mattmets]

I know it's early, but....if I had to pick a WS crew based on the DS umpires, they would come from this group:

McClelland (cc), Marquez, Everitt, Rapuano, Winters, Barrett, Bell, Davis

[CJN]

Originally Posted by mattmets

I know it's early, but....if I had to pick a WS crew based on the DS umpires, they would come from this group:

McClelland (cc), Marquez, Everitt, Rapuano, Winters, Barrett, Bell, Davis

Here's mine (its pretty similar):

McClelland (cc), Winters, Bell, Bill Welke, Rapuano, Davis

[SanDiegoSteve]

I like this one:

Hernandez (cc), Wendelstedt, Dreckman, Eddings, Bucknor, Davidson.