{"id":239311,"date":"2022-05-07T02:10:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-07T02:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mlb-umpire-apologizes-after-ejecting-d-backs-star-bumgarner"},"modified":"2022-05-07T02:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-07T02:10:33","slug":"mlb-umpire-apologizes-after-ejecting-d-backs-star-bumgarner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/mlb-umpire-apologizes-after-ejecting-d-backs-star-bumgarner","title":{"rendered":"MLB umpire apologizes after ejecting D-backs star Bumgarner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1 of 2PHOENIX (AP) &#8212; Major League Baseball veteran umpire Dan Bellino has issued an apology after ejecting Arizona Diamondbacks star pitcher Madison Bumgarner from a game in Miami this week.The Diamondbacks said Friday they received a copy of Bellino&#8217;s apology from MLB.&#8220;I would like to address my actions on May 4th involving Madison Bumgarner,&#8221; the statement said. &#8220;When I began my MLB career almost 15 years ago, I received some good advice. I was told to umpire every game as if my children were sitting in the front row. I fell short of those expectations this week. While I can&#8217;t go back and change what happened, I take full accountability. I will learn from this incident, and I sincerely apologize.&#8221;Bumgarner gave up a leadoff homer to the Marlins&#8217; Jon Berti in the first inning Wednesday and then retired the next three batters. As he was walking to the dugout, the veteran left-hander gestured with his arm before holding his<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOENIX (AP) &#8212; Major League Baseball veteran umpire Dan Bellino has issued an apology after ejecting Arizona Diamondbacks star pitcher Madison Bumgarner from a game in Miami this week. The<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}