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Dwight Perry

Sideline Chatter: Pitchers better not argue balls and strikes with him

Move over, Don Larsen, and make room for Pat Hoberg.

Larsen famously pitched a perfect game in the 1955 World Series for the Yankees. Hoberg just called one — nailing 129 of 129 taken pitches correctly as the home-plate umpire for this year’s Game 2, according to UmpScorecards.com. The average big league ump misses nine such calls a game.

“Robot umpires sound good in theory,” tweeted Aram Leighton of JustBaseball.com, “but have we considered cloning Pat Hoberg?”

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