Mark Ripperger

{{short description|American baseball umpire (born 1980)}}

{{Infobox baseball biography

| name = Mark Ripperger

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1980|08|06|mf=yes}}

| birth_place = Escondido, California, U.S.

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| team = MLB

| number = 90

| position = Umpire

| debutleague = MLB

| debutdate = September 30

| debutyear = 2010

| umpirecrew = S

| crewchief = #19 Vic Carapazza

| crew2 = #90 Mark Ripperger

| crew3 = #59 Nic Lentz

| crew4 = #48 Nick Mahrley

| highlights = Special assignments

• World Series ({{wsy|2024}})
• League Championship Series ({{alcsy|2023}})
• Division Series ({{aldsy|2022}}, {{nldsy|2024}})
• Wild Card Games/Series (2020, 2023)
• All-Star Game (2022)
• MLB Little League Classic (2018)
• World Baseball Classic Qualifiers (2012)
• Worked the plate for Mike Fiers of the Oakland A's no hitter against the Cincinnati Reds on May 7, 2019.
• Called a perfect game on April 10, 2025.

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Mark Anthony Ripperger (born August 6, 1980) is an American Major League Baseball (MLB) umpire. He made his Major League umpiring debut on September 30, 2010. After Ripperger served as a minor–league replacement umpire, he was promoted to full–time status prior to the 2015 season.{{cite web|title=MLB Hires Tripp Gibson, Mark Ripperger, Will Little|url=http://www.closecallsports.com/2015/01/mlb-hires-hw-grads-tripp-gibson-and.html|website=CloseCallSports.com|accessdate=March 7, 2017|date=January 11, 2015}} His uniform number is 90. On April 10, 2025, in a game between the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals, Ripperger became just the second umpire to record a 'perfect game' since Umpire Scorecards began tracking games, calling all 136 taken pitches correctly. {{Cite web |date=2025-04-11 |title=MLB Umpire Cards Second-Ever Perfect Game in Twins-Royals Contest |url=https://www.si.com/mlb/mlb-umpire-cards-second-ever-perfect-game-twins-royals |access-date=2025-04-11 |website=SI |language=en-US}}