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?”