Richard Illingworth and Paul Reiffel have been announced as the on-field umpires for the India vs New Zealand ICC Champions Trophy 2025 final. The ICC announced the list of match officials for the ...

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.

However, he recently called out umpires for being "terrible" and it doesn't sound like he is going to leave his fate in their hands. More news: Padres' Manny Machado Provides Massive Injury Update ...

Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

robot umpires won’t be rolled out for every game this spring, but they will be in play for Friday’s matchup between the Tampa Bay Rays and the New York Yankees at Steinbrenner Field in Tampa ...

It was a game that featured seven lead changes and ended on a bizarre scene that had umpires going to the press box to review the final play of the game. “I’ve never seen that before ...

In early testing, umpires wore ear buds and would hear “ball” or “strike,” then relay that to players and fans with traditional hand signals.The challenge system adds a wrinkle.

It didn't take long for the ABS system to prove human umpires wrong during MLB's first spring training game of 2025. What if I told you there was once a day when human umpires ruled all?

Robot umpires have arrived in the big leagues, at least in exhibition games. The Cubs and World Series champion Dodgers opened the spring training schedule with an added wrinkle: Camelback Ranch ...

Maybe the most contentious issue ever to divide these two camps is whether or not to replace notoriously inaccurate human home plate umpires with less fallible machines. Though that was once ...

According to the Associated Press, the ABS strike zone is a rectangle, while the strike zone called by human umpires tends to be oval in shape. Umpires will call every pitch at spring training ...