Major League Baseball tested an automated balls and strikes challenge system in spring training games, allowing hitters, ...

The choice is not only whether to introduce ABS, but also whether to implement a change in the definition of the strike zone.

Before the first-ever game at the Major League Baseball level to include an automated challenge system for reviewing balls and strikes, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had only one rule. "I told Munc ...

The potential future implementation of the Automated-Balls-Strikes (ABS) system has been putting more of a spotlight on umpire errors, especially with the generally positive attitude towards ABS ...

In a statement to The Athletic's Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris, an MLB official explained the zone hasn't ...

LaMonte Wade Jr., though, isn’t opposed to the system as long as balls and strikes don’t become fully automated. Wade, who has often hit leadoff for the Giants this spring, has yet to ...

Although it’s been used in the minor leagues since 2023, MLB's implementation of its automatic balls and strikes system (ABS) ...

"When we debuted the automated balls and strikes here at the All-Star game in York in 2019, the earpiece that the umpire used was then retired to the Baseball Hall of Fame," Bannon added.

For just the third time since Umpire Scorecards began tracking balls and strikes in 2015, there was a perfectly called game ...