MLB referee big change Law enforcement record holder West retires

Retirement is a common occurrence, and now a well-known baseball referee has announced his retirement, the 69-year-old Joe West, who is the founder of major league law enforcement games, and he has participated in as many as 5460 major league regular season games.

West's major league refereeing career began on September 14, 1976, when the game he enforced was the Warriors' home game against the Astros, and I believe that most of the people who read this at that time had not yet been born, and the last game of his career law enforcement was last season's Dodgers and Cardinal Wild Card Game, in which he was the presiding judge.

In the White Sox's cross-league game against the Cardinals on May 25, West broke the record for major league enforcement games set by Bill Clem, who had played 5,375 National League games between 1905 and 1941. The series was also full of stories, with Hall of Fame coach Tony LaRouza re-facing his old club and the controversy over the deportation of pitcher Giovanni Gayegos, who was really West, who was on third base in that game.

In addition, the major leagues have also made some other people adjustments, Puerto Rican referee Robert Ortiz was officially mentioned in the referee list, and he also became the first Puerto Rican official referee. In fact, Ortiz has been an alternate referee since 2016, has played 441 major league games, and has been an official referee of the AAA since 2009.

"I am thrilled to be the first Puerto Rican referee in major league history," Ortiz said, "and I am proud to represent my family and Puerto Rico in enforcing the law at the best baseball game in the world."

Major league referees are grouped, with each group of four including a chief referee, and in addition to West, Gray Davis, Covin Danley, Brian Gelman and Fielding Colebus will also retire.

All four of them also have stories, Davis' career has been to lawn 5,000 full major league games, including 4,849 regular season games and a record 151 playoffs, and he is also about to turn 69, and in his 38-year law enforcement career, he has a record of 24 consecutive law enforcement playoffs. The 60-year-old Danley became the first black referee in history the year before, notably playing baseball in college and being a teammate of Hall of Fame fielder Tony Gwen.

(Text/Geng Haoyang)