Chris Guccione has worked a World Series, an All-Star Game, the World Baseball Classic and the last nine Major League Baseball postseasons. He has logged thousands of miles in the minors. Over the last two decades of calling balls and strikes, he’s seen a little bit of everything.
But he has never seen anything like what Josh Cordova went through at Westgate Elementary School two weeks ago.
“This is my state, this is where my heart is,” the longtime MLB umpire and Salida native told The Denver Post. “So when I saw the incident that happened, I was concerned.