With a new Major League Baseball season here, a major change will play a unique role in how the year progresses. Coming to the majors this season is the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, or ABS ...

In its first year of implementation at the major league level, the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System seems to have been an overwhelming success. Players, managers and fans have all ...

Automatic Ball-Strike Challenge System rules remain in place for the World Series. Here's how effective the Brewers, Rays are ...

In baseball, checked swings are as much of an art as they are a science. And most art has no rules, only trends. The checked swing has always been one of baseball’s more subjective calls, if not the ...

The SEC tournament will be held in Hoover, Ala., from May 19 to 24. Jake Crandall / USA Today Network via Imagn Images The Southeastern Conference will use the experimental Automated Ball-Strike ...

There will be firsts in this World Series, guaranteed. Either the Tampa Bay Rays or Milwaukee Brewers will have the first ABS challenge of a ball or strike. One of them will have the first successful ...

MLB home plate umpires missing calls behind the dish is as frustrating an event as any for fans, players and managers to deal with. With that, having an automated balls and strikes (ABS) system in ...

Another major change is coming to MLB. Just years after the ghost runner and pitch clock rules significantly changed the rhythm of baseball, shortening game length, the league is now addressing a ...

Richie Garcia is worried about the impact that robot umpires will have on their human counterparts. Major League Baseball introduced the Automated Ball-Strike System for regular-season play this ...

Dalton Rushing (right) has attempted the most challenges among the Dodgers' catchers, going 2 for 6 on his attempts from behind the plate. AP PHOENIX –– Finally, the Dodgers have found something they ...

College baseball is taking another significant step into the technology era. The NCAA has officially approved the experimental use of a ball-strike challenge system across Divisions I, II and III ...