The automated ball-strike system (ABS) has been used for minor league games, but it's getting rolled out for the first time in the big leagues during spring training.

Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.

Major League Baseball has introduced several new ... you want to get the call right.” Home-plate umpires are still tasked with calling balls and strikes in games, but Hawk-Eye technology ...

Veteran MLB umpire Mike Muchlinski went viral on social media for his sense of humor after he got one of his strike zone calls challenged. Muchlinski was the home plate umpire for Tuesday’s ...

which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in 2024, MLB focused testing on a challenge system in which the human umpire makes ...

While MLB's ABS challenge system (automated balls and strikes) is still in the testing phase this spring training, we're already seeing how umpires respond to the system on the field. And credit ...

That applies to umpires too, apparently, as MLB ump Quinn Wolcott had an internal dialogue play out in the middle of a call. During Tuesday's Cactus League game between the Angels and Rangers ...