The technology for tracking balls and strikes and challenging the human umpires behind home plate is making its Major League ...

Major League Baseball's trial of the automated balls and strikes challenge system is experimental no more. The "robot" umpires are coming to MLB starting next season. The league announced on Tuesday, ...

The Joint Competition Committee last September voted to bring the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, powered by T-Mobile, to the big leagues in 2026 following several years of ...

ARLINGTON, Texas -- Maybe more than ever, we simply can't stop talking about how the umpires call balls and strikes. That is, how poorly they make those calls, at least if you listen to the masses.

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 ...