{"id":812512,"date":"2026-09-23T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/812512\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T20:03:19","slug":"twin-brothers-austin-and-tyler-jones-ump-a-big-league-game-together-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/812512\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin brothers Austin and Tyler Jones ump a big league game together for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Twin brothers Austin and Tyler Jones umpired a game together for the first time at the major league level Wednesday when they worked the opener of a doubleheader between Toronto and Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Jones was at first base and Tyler Jones was handling second. Both began umpiring in the minors in 2014 and have been at the Triple-A level this year, although they&#8217;ve done big league games separately before. They reside in South Carolina. This was their first time working a pro game together since they did so in the rookie league over 10 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Both Austin and Tyler Jones were also expected to work the second game of the doubleheader.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/umpscorecards.com\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">umpscorecards.com<\/a>, Austin Jones made his major league debut in 2024 and Tyler made his last year.<\/p>\n<p>See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE (AP) \u2014 Twin brothers Austin and Tyler Jones umpired a game together for the first time at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374],"tags":[18412,143,47,2538,5,98958,4,125,9501,9496,39139,98960,6392,282,98959],"class_list":["post-812512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baltimore-orioles","tag-austin-jones","tag-baltimore","tag-baltimore-orioles","tag-baltimoreorioles","tag-baseball","tag-baseball-twin-umpires","tag-mlb","tag-orioles","tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","tag-product-40779-ap-delaware-maryland-sports-only","tag-product-40812-ap-south-carolina-sports-only","tag-south-carolina","tag-toronto","tag-tyler-jones"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117322147674374244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812512","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=812512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}