Obviously you take the time to think about this decision, though I myself tend to give batsmen out fairly quickly. Other umpires might take a little longer, but the raising of the dreaded index finger ...

Major League Baseball is ... challenge a home plate umpire's call. The automated ball-strike system (ABS) has been used for minor league games, but it's getting rolled out for the first time ...

Braves shortstop Orlando Arcia hit a ground ball down the third base line to lead off the bottom of the sixth inning, which third base umpire Chad ... pretty clearly signals foul on the play ...

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training ... a challenge system in which the human umpire makes each original call.

Major League Baseball is preparing the automated ball ... Each team will start a game with two challenges it can issue to an umpire, who will then rely on the automated ball-strike system to ...

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training ... a challenge system in which the human umpire makes each original call.

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content. A veteran of 20 years of sports coverage for daily newspapers in California, J.P. covered MLB, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Los ...

Making his big league umpiring debut in 2014, Hoberg became a full-time MLB umpire in 2017 and boasted a 95.5% accuracy rating per Umpire Scorecards for the 2023 season. Hoberg had umpired in ...

The manager then hauled out the heavy ... as far as like the baseball brat that he is.” Advertisement But this is so much more than a big-time player acquisition that signals the Red Sox are ...