How to Use ump in a Sentence

ump

noun

• The game isn’t over with until the ump (umpire) calls the game.
  — Marcus Gutierrez, Houston Chronicle, 3 Mar. 2020
• Maybe the ump could check the pitcher’s hands, then go up into the stands and check the fan’s hands.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 May 2022
• Four innings in, the crowd got up the nerve to boo the ump and baseball was back to normal.
  — Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 30 Mar. 2021
• The play flashes on the stadium’s big screen, and the ump throws out his arms: Safe!
  — Rich Cohen, WSJ, 22 June 2018
• Tumpane, the home plate ump, kept watching the pitches and calling balls.
  — Rustin Dodd, kansascity.com, 25 June 2017
• No pitch clocks, robo umps, shift bans or DHs in the National League.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 27 June 2018
• Coaches aren't allowed to argue a pitch clock call by the ump.
  — Stefan Stevenson, star-telegram, 22 Mar. 2018
• No more looking at the first- or third-base ump for a ruling on a check swing that’s at least 90 feet away.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 15 May 2021
• The replay ump can sort it out after the play if the call was incorrect.
  — Paul Uhls, Cincinnati.com, 3 Jan. 2020
• There’s no one to grumble with when the ump makes a bad call and, worse, no one to celebrate with when the ball sails out of the park.
  — Alan Smolinisky, WSJ, 4 Oct. 2020
• Regardless, eliminate at least one ump on the field and put him in the booth.
  — Paul Uhls, Cincinnati.com, 3 Jan. 2020
• Why give umps a reason to ring up a player who likes to be selective at the plate?
  — David Haugh, chicagotribune.com, 13 June 2018
• Why not simply have the home-plate ump get out his jeweler’s loupe?
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 June 2021
• When Mets manager Gil Hodges showed the ball to the plate umpire, the ump found a spot of shoe polish on it and sends Jones to first base.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 27 Nov. 2019
• The home plate ump would be replaced by an electronic strike zone.
  — Bill Carter For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 10 Apr. 2020
• After the game, the home-plate ump Wolf rewatched the play on video and admitted his mistake.
  — Ted Berg, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
• Baseball’s umps believe a ball is a dance and a strike is a union decision.
  — Nick Canepacolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2023
• If that test goes well, the computer umps could be used at Triple-A in 2021 as bugs are dealt with prior to a big league callup.
  — Ben Walker and Ronald Blum, Houston Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2019
• Finally, with two on and two out and a 2-0 count on Drew Butera, Bauer just went into a stall waiting for the umps to call for the tarp.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland.com, 4 June 2017
• To baseball fans across America, the time-honored cry of summer is this: Kill the ump!
  — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2022
• The catcher is appealing to the first-base ump, who will perform a mental coin flip.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 9 Oct. 2020
• UW’s Trysten Melhart threw out a runner at third on the play, but the umps ruled Perez scored before that third out.
  — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 22 Apr. 2018
• After one more batter to lead off the eighth, Kellogg left the game was replaced at home by first base ump James Hoye.
  — USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2017
• What makes this all the more frustrating was the ump's inability to temper the crowd.
  — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Hamari was the third-base ump Saturday, and Adam Additon was behind the plate.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 May 2021
• Robo umps are not going to work. Unbecoming to a great game.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2019
• Taylor's dad, Scott, makes an appearance in the music video as the tennis ump that Tyler yells at.
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 27 Feb. 2020
• Plate ump Jerry Meals didn't ring up Odor, instead just calling a strike.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 30 May 2018
• Plate ump Rob Drake rang up three Giants hitters in the final two innings on strikes that weren’t strikes.
  — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 27 Sep. 2020
• The umpires, including second-base ump Sam Holbrook, ruled the ball was live, a non-catch.
  — John Shea, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 June 2021

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024