Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

MLB's umpires are very good -- they're the best in the world at what they do -- and they're getting better too. The data shows they miss fewer calls with each passing year. The challenge system is ...

According to data from Codify Baseball, in 2023 alone — the first year of the MLB pitch clock — home plate umpires missed 21,000 calls. And that was their best performance ever recorded.