{"id":293070,"date":"2023-05-04T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=293070"},"modified":"2023-05-04T17:59:06","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T17:59:06","slug":"florida-father-punches-63-year-old-umpire-at-sons-high-school-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=293070","title":{"rendered":"Florida father punches 63-year old umpire at son&#039;s high school game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Forty-one-year-old Jorge Ignacio Aponte-Gonzalez struck an umpire over an argument during his son&#8217;s baseball game at Liberty High School in Kissimmee, according to\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/05\/04\/shock-video-shows-florida-dad-slugging-63-year-old-umpire-at-high-school-game\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">an account by the New York Post<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Osceola County Sheriff Marco Lopez says Aponte-Gonzalez&#8217;s son was being disruptive and was chastised by the umpire, which led to the confrontation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8220;The umpire is obviously going to maintain control of the game&#8230; Because that is what they are there to do. To make sure kids learn all about sportsmanlike conduct&#8230; The kid was being disruptive, so the umpire&#8217;s like, &#8216;Hey, tone it down,&#8217; maintaining control, They went back and forth a little bit. I don&#8217;t know exactly what was exchanged, but\u2026 that is what upset the father.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">You can see video of the assault on the Facebook page for the\u00a0<\/span><a class=\"editor-rtfLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/osceolasheriff\/videos\/626903362638456\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Osceola County Sheriff&#8217;s office here<\/span><\/a><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The umpire&#8217;s name has not been released, but he&#8217;s reportedly 63. The father is facing battery charges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>More baseball stories<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/let-the-kids-cartwheel-teeball-player-flips-again-on-way-to-1st-base\">Teeball player cartwheels on her way to first base<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/usatodayhss.com\/2023\/illinois-baseball-team-has-3-games-postponed-over-reported-misconduct\">Illinois team has three games postponed over misconduct<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The umpire&#8217;s name has not been released, but he is reportedly 63 years old.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":286601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293070"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293070"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293070\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293071,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293070\/revisions\/293071"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/286601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}