By Doc McElroy
Bill Miller to Serve as Crew Chief in the 2023 Fall Classic Between the Texas Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks
Major League Baseball today announced the Major League Umpires who have been assigned to the 2023 World Series presented by Capital One, which is scheduled to begin on Friday in Arlington, Texas, where the American League Champion Rangers will host Game One vs. the National League Champion Arizona Diamondbacks.
Bill Miller, who is completing his 25th season as a Major League Umpire, will be the primary crew chief for Baseball’s 119th Fall Classic. This will be Miller’s fifth career World Series (previously: 2010, 2013, 2017 and 2020) and his second as the crew chief, joining 2020. Miller’s crew includes regular season crew chief Alfonso Márquez, Vic Carapazza, Brian Knight, David Rackley, D.J. Reyburn and Quinn Wolcott. Like Miller, this is the fifth career Fall Classic for Márquez. This marks the first career World Series for Carapazza, Knight, Rackley, Reyburn and Wolcott. All of the Fall Classic umpires worked the Division Series round of the 2023 Postseason.
Placing seven umpires on the World Series crew allows for distinct home plate assignments in a potential seven-game series. One of the seven umpires will be off the field in each game. Márquez will serve as Crew Chief in Game Six of the Fall Classic, when Miller will be off the field. The Major League Umpires who will be the Replay Officials during the World Series are regular season crew chief Todd Tichenor and Lance Barrett.
A complete listing of the rotation for the 2023 World Series accompanies this press release.
ESPN Radio will also provide live national coverage of all games of the 2023 World Series. All games on FOX will be available to MLB.TV subscribers who are authenticated subscribers to the applicable network through a participating pay TV provider. Univision Radio will carry Spanish-language coverage of all World Series games. MLB Network will provide comprehensive on-site pregame and postgame coverage throughout the Fall Classic, as well as producing the world feed that will be distributed in 210 countries and territories across 137 networks in 16 different languages.
The 2023 Postseason schedule, subject to change, can be viewed in its entirety at MLB.com/postseason.
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