Automated ball-strike challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season. A Tuesday vote from the MLB Joint Competition Committee, an 11-person group that includes six team owners, four ...

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) ...

Starting in the 2026 season, Major League Baseball players will be able to challenge called balls and strikes in regular and postseason games for the first time. The widely expected adoption of the ...

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 ...

When an electronic ball-strike system arrives in the big leagues at some point in the next few years, it won’t be used to call every pitch. Major League Baseball made that clear Tuesday, when it sent ...

If you are watching a game and suddenly see a batter, catcher or pitcher tap their helmet after a borderline pitch, that is MLB’s ABS challenge system in action. “ABS” stands for Automated Ball-Strike ...

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a spring training game against the Boston Red Sox last week – so ...

Starting next season, MLB players will be able to challenge balls and strikes a few times per game. A vote on Tuesday approved the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, which had been tested ...

Rejoice, MLB fans, robot umpires are almost here ... well, kind of. The league joint competition committee met Tuesday to vote on whether to bring the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system to ...