Education
Miller graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a history degree in 1989.
Miller graduated from University of California, Los Angeles with a history degree in 1989.
Miller wears number 26. He has been a crew chief since the 2014 season. Miller umpired in the Northwest League, Arizona Instructional League, South Atlantic League, California League, Texas League, International League, and Pacific Coast League before reaching the MLB in 1997.
While umpiring in the International League, Miller was robbed at gunpoint at a hotel.
He officiated in the League Championship Series in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, and 2015, and the Division Series in 2002 (National League), 2003 (National League), 2005 (American League), 2008 (American League), 2010 (American League), 2013 (National League), and worked the 2007 All-Star Game, the Wild Card Game in 2012, 2014, and 2015, and the 2010 World Series and 2013 World Series. On May 15, 2012, Miller was involved in an altercation with Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Brett Lawrie during his last at battalion
With a 3–1 count, pitcher Fernando Rodney threw two balls, based on replays and computerized strike zone analysis. Lawrie headed towards first after each pitch.
However, Miller called the pitches strikes and ejected Lawrie after he protested the strikeout.
Lawrie then threw his helmet, which bounced off the ground and hit Miller. The next day, Lawrie was suspended by Major League Baseball for four games. Miller was chosen as one of the umpires for the one-game Wild Card playoff between the Baltimore Orioles and the Texas Rangers on October 5, 2012.
Before the 2014 season, he was named a crew chief by Major League Baseball.
Miller graduated from University of California, Los Angeles in 1989, and resides in Incline Village, Nevada. He was a three-sport athlete at Harbor High School in Santa Cruz, California, and was named Athlete of the Year in Santa Cruz County for his senior year.
He is an alumnus of the Sigma Chi fraternity.
He also won the 1994, 1995 and 1998 NLL Champions Cup Champion with the Philadelphia Wings and was named the game two Most Valuable Player in the 1998 Champions Cup against the Baltimore Thunder. In his senior year, 1987, he led Episcopal to a state championship, winning the Avery F. Blake Memorial Trophy as the de facto Pennsylvania state champion.
