VALLEY / VENTURA COUNTY SPORTS : DIGEST : Randy Is Not a Lone Wolf in Major Leagues

Umpire Jim Wolf, an El Camino Real High graduate and the brother of pitcher Randy Wolf of the Philadelphia Phillies, made his major league debut Thursday in San Francisco at third base in the Phillies-Giants game.

Randy watched from the dugout.

“I’m so thrilled they went up the same year,” said Judy Wolf, their mother. “It’s very cool.”

Jim, 30, is serving as a fill-in umpire while still working in the triple-A Pacific Coast League.

“It was a blast,” Jim told reporters afterward.

It was an eventful 24 hours for Jim, who worked the major league game, then umpired a PCL game in Fresno the same night. He left Friday morning to umpire a PCL series in Edmonton this weekend. He is scheduled to umpire in Milwaukee on Monday.

Only once in modern baseball history have brothers appeared in the same game as umpire and player. Bill Haller was behind the plate and Tom Haller was the catcher for Detroit against Kansas City on July 14, 1972.