Ryan Blakney

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Ryan Blakney
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Blakney in the Midwest League in 2008
Born: (1985-05-24) May 24, 1985 (age 38)
Wenatchee, Washington, U.S.
MLB debut
April 21, 2015
Career highlights and awards
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Ryan Benjamin Blakney (born May 24, 1985) is an American Major League Baseball (MLB) umpire. He made his MLB debut on April 21, 2015. [1]

For the 2018 regular season he was found to be one of the ten best home plate umpires in terms of accuracy in calling balls and strikes. His error rate was 7.97%. This was based on a study conducted at Boston University where 372,442 pitches were culled and analyzed. [2] Blakney was promoted to a full-time umpiring position before the 2020 Major League Baseball season began. [3]

Blakney was the home plate umpire during Reid Detmers's no-hitter on May 10, 2022. [4]

In August 2022, USA Today ran an article on a missed call by him, saying “the missed call — and subsequent hilarious ejection — are a stark reminder that nobody is perfect.”

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References

  1. ↑ "Ryan Blakney". Retrosheet. Retrosheet. Retrieved 4 July 2017.
  2. ↑ "MLB Umpires Missed 34,294 Ball-Strike Calls in 2018. Bring on Robo-umps?". BU Today. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
  3. ↑ "MLB promotes five to full-time umpiring staff". MLB.com. 27 February 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  4. ↑ "Rays at Angels Box Score". ESPN. 10 May 2022. Retrieved 11 May 2022.


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