NEW ORLEANS — Efficiency is the name of the game for Lonzo Ball this season. The Chicago Bulls point guard is eager to get back into the starting lineup. But for the foreseeable future, he will have ...

What is it? Next season, umpires will continue to make ball-strike calls. A challenge system will be added. Pitchers, catchers, and batters will be allowed to challenge ball-strike calls. Each review ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

Thursday's Cactus League game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs will be more than just the first spring training game of 2025. It'll also be a bit of baseball history: For the first ...

Major League Baseball plans to test the ball-strike challenge system during next year’s Spring Training, commissioner Rob Manfred said this week. Manfred suggested as much on Monday in a conversation ...

MLB is putting a spotlight on the next generation of players this week with a series of games called the Spring Breakout that feature rosters of franchises’ top prospects. And because the games are ...

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 ...

Automated ball-strike challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season. The particulars are pending a Tuesday vote from the MLB competition committee, an 11-person group that includes six ...