Investigative focus on efforts in 2021 play

On February 4, 2025By Littum

Major League Baseball, who fired Umpire Pat Hoberg for his association with a well -known gambler and officially refused his appeal on Monday, said there is no evidence that Hoberg Gambled on baseball or manipulated the result of any game he refused during his career.

While MLB made it clear that Hoberg was offending their game policy, MLB’s officials insist that there is a distinction between Hoberg’s wrongful actions and former NBA judge Tim Donaghy, who was sentenced to prison for betting at stake he served .

There were 141 baseball bets located by Hoberg’s close friend, called Individual A in the MLB report, a professional poker player who placed 19 of the effort from Hoberg’s house. There were eight bets located during the 2021 season of five matches that Hoberg has either umpireed or was an official in the Replay Review.

MLB found no evidence of any wrongdoing in these five games, the study revealed in its detailed report:

April 13, 2021

Hoberg was the third base judge in the game San Francisco Giants-Cincinnati Reds games and had three close plays, according to the MLB evaluation system. The three calls were all correct.
Hoberg’s friend made two bets for $ 2,000 and $ 1,000 on the Red and lost with Giants Winning, 7-6.

June 15, 2021

Hoberg was the leading replay official of the Chicago Cubs-New York METS game. There wasn’t a single repetition notification.
Hoberg’s friend bet $ 1,050 on the kids – and won $ 1,550.

August 15, 2021

Hoberg was the home plate. He missed only two seats in the game, according to MLB’s evaluation system, with a score of 98.89%. The two unanswered seats were in “situations with low leverage and benefit dodgers, with the six other calls” within the buffer zone “, with four going towards Dodgers and two towards Mets.
Hoberg’s friend bet $ 3,200 on Dodgers – and won $ 5,200.

October 8, 2021

Hoberg was the third base judge for Los Angeles Dodgers-San Francisco Giants’s playoffs in NLDS, but had no call close enough to be logged in MLB’s evaluation system.
Hoberg’s friend bet $ 2,000 on Giants and $ 3,000 on Over-under-and won both bets for a total of $ 9,300 with Giants beating Dodgers, 4-0.

30 October 2021

Hoberg was the leading replay clerk for Game 4 of the World Series between Houston Astros and Atlanta Braves. There was only one repetition review when Houston Astros challenged a safe call on the second base. Hoberg confirmed the call supported by the staff of the Replay Operations Center.
Hoberg’s friend made two separate bets on astros for $ 3,000 and $ 1,050 and lost both when Atlanta won, 3-2.

“MLB analyzed baseball bets located from individual A’s accounts and similar waste data to search for any noticeable patterns that could indicate integrity risks,” MLB said in his study. “Although the baseball effort was profitable, the data did not support the fact that baseball efforts from individual A’s accounts were connected to game fixing or other efforts to manipulate any part of any baseball game or event.

“Critically, the Baseball Betting Activity did not focus on any particular club, jug or judge, and there was no apparent connection between action success and betting size. The eight bets on games that Hoberg worked on similar did not reveal any obvious pattern.”

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