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Baseball: Cousins works 4,000th game as MLB umpire

Los Angeles Times staff writer Ben Bolch
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What is it about El Segundo’s baseball program and longevity?

Eagles Coach John Stevenson has won more than 1,000 games and been around the program 50 years. Alum George Brett was a Hall of Fame mainstay for parts of three decades with the Kansas City Royals.

And earlier this month, Derryl Cousins, the older brother of El Segundo assistant Craig Cousins and a former Eagle himself, worked his 4,000th game as a major league umpire.

‘I have nowhere close to that number [of games] left,’ Cousins, 62, who is in his 30th major league season, told mlb.com. ‘I haven’t really thought about it yet, but when you get to that number, you’re getting close to the end.’

--Ben Bolch

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Ben Bolch

Ben Bolch has been a Los Angeles Times staff writer since 1999. He is serving his second stint as the UCLA beat writer, which seems fitting since he has covered almost every sports beat except hockey and horse racing. Bolch is also the author of the recently released book “100 Things UCLA Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die.” He previously covered UCLA basketball from 2010-11 before going on to cover the NBA and the Clippers for five years. He happily traded in gobs of hotel points and airline miles to return to cover UCLA basketball and football in the summer of 2016. Bolch was once selected by NBA TV’s “The Starters” as the “Worst of the Week” after questioning their celebrity journalism-style questions at an NBA All-Star game and considers it one of his finer moments.

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