Sept. 23 (UPI) --Major League Baseball entered an age of robot umpiring Tuesday after a league committee approved a high-tech system for players to challenge calls. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

PHOENIX — Before the first major league spring game to include an automated challenge system for reviewing balls and strikes, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had only one rule. “I told Muncy not to ...

For generations, baseball has followed a simple rule. The umpire calls balls and strikes, and that call stands. That changes now. This season, Major League Baseball is introducing something that once ...

Only the batter, pitcher or catcher can challenge an umpire’s ball or strike call with the ABS system. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Human umpires will remain behind the plate calling balls and ...

Three weeks into the 2026 MLB season, the introduction of the automated ball-strike challenge system has been the talk of baseball. In the early days of the new ABS system, there have been nearly ...

PHOENIX — Baseball Hall of Fame president Josh Rawitch was on hand Thursday, but didn’t ask for any artifacts for the museum. Chicago Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet and Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max ...

PHOENIX — For more than 150 years, the game of baseball has relied on humans behind home plate to call balls and strikes. This spring, for the first time in Major League history, players will be able ...