{{Short description|American baseball umpire}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox baseball biography | name = Edwin Moscoso | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|05|06|mf=yes}} | birth_place = Caracas, Venezuela | death_date = | death_place = | image = Edwin Moscoso at first base, March 15, 2024.jpg | width = | caption = Moscoso in 2024 | team = MLB | number = 32 | position = Umpire | debutleague = MLB | debutdate = July 23 | debutyear = 2020 | umpirecrew = P | crewchief = #19 Vic Carapazza | crew2 = #21 Hunter Wendelstedt | crew3 = #59 Nic Lentz | crew4 = #32 Edwin Moscoso | highlights = Special assignments *Division Series ({{nldsy|2024}}, {{nldsy|2025}}) *Wild Card Games/Series (2023) *Home plate umpire for Domingo Germán's perfect game (June 28, 2023) |}} '''Edwin Abenis Moscoso'''<ref name=":0" /> <!-- Sources conflict on the subject's DOB, please discuss on talk page before adding --> is a Venezuelan professional baseball umpire. He has been an umpire in Major League Baseball since 2020. Moscoso wears uniform number 32.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=MLB Umpire Bios |url=https://www.mlb.com/official-information/umpires/bios |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Edwin Moscoso|url= https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/M/Pmosce901.htm |access-date=2025-02-20 |website=Retrosheet.org}}</ref>
==Career== Moscoso began his professional career in 2014 after attending the MiLB Umpire Training Academy. He spent time in the Gulf Coast League, New York–Penn League, Florida State League, Southern League, and Pacific Coast League, as well as three seasons in the Venezuelan Professional Baseball League. He worked the 2018 All-Star Futures Game, the first Venezuelan to do so.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Imber |first=Lindsay |date=July 23, 2020 |title=MLB Debut of Umpire Edwin Moscoso |url=https://www.closecallsports.com/2020/07/mlb-debut-of-edwin-moscoso.html?m=1 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Close Call Sports |language=en}}</ref>
He made his major league debut on July 23, 2020, at Dodger Stadium. He umpired the game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers alongside Bill Miller, Doug Eddings, and Rob Drake.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Retrosheet Boxscore: Los Angeles Dodgers 8, San Francisco Giants 1 |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2020/B07230LAN2020.htm |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Retrosheet.org}}</ref><ref name=":2" /> He was hired as a full time MLB umpire in 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=MLB promotes 10 umpires ahead of 2023 season |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-umpiring-promotions-for-2023 |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=MLB.com |language=en}}</ref>
Moscoso’s first postseason assignment was the 2023 National League Wild Card Series. In 2024 he worked the National League Division Series alongside Carlos Torres, marking the first MLB postseason series featuring two Venezuelan umpires on the same crew.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-10-24 |title=El venezolano Carlos Torres es el próximo umpire principal del juego inaugural de la Serie Mundial |url=https://www.eluniversal.com/deportes/193697/carlos-torres-es-el-proximo-umpire-principal-del-juego-inaugural-de-la-serie-mundial |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=El Universal |language=es}}</ref>
He was the home plate umpire for Domingo Germán's perfect game on June 28, 2023.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Retrosheet Boxscore: New York Yankees 11, Oakland Athletics 0 |url=https://www.retrosheet.org/boxesetc/2023/B06280OAK2023.htm |access-date=2025-02-21 |website=Retrosheet.org}}</ref>
== Personal life == Moscoso grew up in the town of Palo Negro within Libertador Municipality. He is married and has a daughter. He studied chemical engineering at the University of Carabobo.<ref name=":1" />
==See also== {{Portal|Biography|Baseball}} * List of Major League Baseball umpires (disambiguation)
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