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There is a good chance that we will hear from Dan Iassogna during this World Series: Iassogna is the umpire crew chief, and if he’s on the field when a call is reviewed, the task of announcing the outcome will fall to him.

“The hardest part is working with the crowd noise. Do I stop talking through the crowd noise? Do I power through it?” Iassogna said in an interview with The New York Times during the season, the first in which umpires have announced calls to crowds and television audiences.

Plus, Iassogna said, “as soon as I say ‘overturned,’ they’re going to start screaming.