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) ...

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 ...

In recent years, we've seen MLB become more receptive to the technology at its disposal. The league expanded the replay challenge rules, added a pitch clock and introduced Statcast to elevate how fans ...

The challenge system for calling balls and strikes seems to be less than a year away. MLB commissioner Rob Manfred tells Evan Drellich of The Athletic that the league will propose that change, to go ...

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 ...

PHOENIX — For more than 150 years, the game of baseball has relied on humans behind home plate to call balls and strikes. This spring, for the first time in Major League history, players will be able ...

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 ...