{"id":116869,"date":"2026-04-20T04:56:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/felix-neon-debuts-in-mlb-dominican-umpire-makes-history-in-major-leagues-4\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T04:56:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T08:56:32","slug":"felix-neon-debuts-in-mlb-dominican-umpire-makes-history-in-major-leagues-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/nationals\/felix-neon-debuts-in-mlb-dominican-umpire-makes-history-in-major-leagues-4\/","title":{"rendered":"F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n Debuts in MLB: Dominican Umpire Makes History in Major Leagues"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n Makes History: First Game as Umpire in MLB<\/h2>\n\n\nDominican baseball celebrates a new achievement with the debut of F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n as an umpire in the Major Leagues. This event marks a milestone in his professional career and highlights the growth of umpiring in the country.\n\nNeon had his first performance this Friday in the match between the Boston Red Sox and the Detroit Tigers, held at the historic Fenway Park. This world-renowned stadium witnessed the debut of the Dominican umpire.\n\nWith this debut, Ne\u00f3n becomes the second Dominican to reach this level in Major League Baseball, following in the footsteps of Ram\u00f3n de Jes\u00fas Ferrer, who debuted in 2016.\n\nF\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n is an example of discipline and perseverance. His arrival in the Major Leagues confirms the quality of Dominican umpire development.\n\nNeon was formed in the league system, with preparation at the Baseball Arbitrators Development Academy (ADAB) and prior experience in the Dominican Summer League, before ascending to professional baseball.\n\nThis debut not only represents a personal achievement, but also an important step for the international projection of Dominican arbitration.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n Makes History: First Game as Umpire in MLB Dominican baseball celebrates a new achievement with the debut of F\u00e9lix Ne\u00f3n as an umpire in the Major Leagues. This event marks a milestone in his professional career and highlights the growth of umpiring in the country. Neon had his first performance this Friday in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[997],"tags":[88,12530,3068,2500],"class_list":{"0":"post-116869","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nationals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-felix-neon","10":"tag-major-leagues","11":"tag-referee"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}