{"id":663816,"date":"2026-04-05T01:56:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:56:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663816\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T01:56:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T01:56:23","slug":"umpire-ron-kulpa-leaves-marlins-yankees-after-foul-ball-hits-mask","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/663816\/","title":{"rendered":"Umpire Ron Kulpa leaves Marlins-Yankees after foul ball hits mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; Plate umpire Ron Kulpa left Saturday&#8217;s game between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/mia\/miami-marlins\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Marlins<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/team\/_\/name\/nyy\/new-york-yankees\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Yankees<\/a> with two outs in the fourth inning after taking a foul ball off his mask.<\/p>\n<p>Kulpa was hit in the mask by a foul ball earlier in the inning and stayed in as <a data-player-guid=\"d7480cad-f3cc-3579-a5e6-5706d5d4e0c7\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/4866735\/jakob-marsee\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jakob Marsee<\/a>&#8216;s RBI single gave the Marlins a 4-0 lead. After <a data-player-guid=\"c0983079-e22f-3b2c-b220-2e8de6f4b1a1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/player\/_\/id\/5132014\/agustin-ramirez\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Agustin Ramirez<\/a> scored on the hit, Kulpa motioned to the Yankees&#8217; dugout and was checked out by two trainers.<\/p>\n<p>After a few minutes, Kulpa exited under his own power for further examination.<\/p>\n<p>The game was delayed about 10 minutes and resumed with Scott Barry moving from first base to the plate.<\/p>\n<p>Kulpa made his umpiring debut in the majors July 23, 1998, and was promoted as a full-time umpire in 1999. He was part of the umpiring crew for the World Series in 2011 and 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK &#8212; Plate umpire Ron Kulpa left Saturday&#8217;s game between the Miami Marlins and New York Yankees&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":663817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2395],"tags":[5,1816,778,58,4171,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-663816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami-marlins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-marlins","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-marlins","12":"tag-miamimarlins","13":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116349618820284886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=663816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/663817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}