Verdict is in on MLB's ABS challenge system: 52% overturned in spring training
The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.
A spring training’s worth of the automated ball-strike challenge system: Are robot umps coming to MLB?
The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) ...
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Is This the Last Season Baseball Umpires Really Matter?
Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.
Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up
The sport has seen a flurry of rule adjustments in just the past decade and a half, with more on the horizon. America's ...
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Irish capture series from No. 22 Virginia
A week removed from a rough, 0-3 series at home against then-ranked No. 22 Stanford, Notre Dame softball had better things in ...
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A spring training’s worth of the automated ball-strike challenge system: Are robot umps coming to MLB?
In the bottom of the sixth inning, with a runner on base, one out and facing a full count, Chisholm had a third strike called on him by the home plate ... only the batter, pitcher or catcher ...
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Baseball was largely unchanged for more than a century — now MLB is trying to shake things up
For example, when the count is 2-1 and the batter doesn't swing at a borderline pitch, his fate will be dramatically shifted by the home plate umpire's ... of longtime MLB catcher Bob Boone.