At 1:54 ET on Saturday afternoon, New York Yankees play-by-play man Michael Kay lit the fuse on what will be remembered as ...

YOU MIGHT not know the name Gerry Davis, but if you were a Red Sox fan in 2004, he played a key role in one of the happiest moments of your life. Standing behind first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz as ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires. A situation is a flash of irritatio ...

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!

The knock of the bat, the roar of the crowd, the anxiety in the air—it had all the characteristics of a classic showdown. The ...

On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires are tried out as part of MLB's ...

The one constant through the years, James Earl Jones famously ... The recently retired umpire Jim Reynolds, now MLB’s umpire supervisor, tells a story that illustrates what a hall of mirrors ...

After realizing he would never be a professional athlete, Vic Carapazza is in his 14th season as a Major League Baseball ... Umpire School in 2003. He called minor-league games for seven years ...