The average miss of the 11 most accurate umps is 0.7 inches or less, according to tracking website Tap the Challenge. Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Most businesses would balk at creating a ...
It feels good to get it right. “It” in this case being balls and strikes. MLB’s new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System is helping to make those calls more right than ever. It makes you ...
Over the season's first three days, the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system has changed things drastically. Steph Chambers / Getty Images It took all of five days for Major League Baseball’s ...
Nobody likes getting called out at work — especially when doing so happens on a JumboTron in front of tens of thousands of folks. Some MLB umpires are “stewing” about the new Automated Ball-Strike ...
Major League Baseball has implemented the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system this season and it has been a huge hit. No pun intended. The players and fans love it. Here is how it works: Each ...
A walk-off via ABS challenge? It took less than a week for Major League Baseball to see the first of its kind. The system, in which a hitter, pitcher, or catcher can challenge a called ball or strike ...
World Series MVP and Cy Young contender Yoshinobu Yamamoto received a hero’s welcome as he took the mound for the Dodgers on Opening Day. But then something new and extraordinary happened. After ...
CB Bucknor is having a rough week. CB Bucknor is having a rough week. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. During ...
Six days into the Major League Baseball season, and teams, coaches and umpires are already seeing the impacts of the newly implemented Automated Ball-Strike challenge system that claims to have more ...
C.B. Bucknor has endured a brutal start to the 2026 MLB season. Six of those calls were overturned, including this incredible sequence in the bottom of the sixth where he called a strike three that ...
The New York Yankees lead the AL East in ABS challenge percentage at 65.5%, outperforming early narratives about their pitchers struggling. The Oakland Athletics boast the best ABS percentage in ...
The automated ball-strike (ABS) system has been implemented in Major League Baseball this year and here, on just the fifth day of the regular season, we have our first ABS-related ejection. Twins ...
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