PHOENIX — The robo ump could kill K-Zone. On Thursday, Major League Baseball will employ what it calls the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, in a big-league spring training game for the ...

The system is capable of pinpointing where the ball was in relation to the strike zone as it crosses the plate. It is similar ...

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Viewers of broadcast feeds will also see the same replay, according to MLB, which said its research revealed that a strike zone challenge typically added 17 seconds to a game. When used during ...

But last week’s developments — Major League Baseball’s test of the automated strike zone, and the possibility of this rule change taking effect in regular season games as early as 2026 or ...

Whether Diaz can frame at all may soon be moot. An automated strike zone seems imminent in Major League Baseball, which will test the technology during some Grapefruit and Cactus League games ...

The ABS system features a strike zone that is seventeen inches wide—the width of home plate—and it stretches from 53.5 percent of a player's height at the top of the zone to 27 percent of ...

The pitch was called a ball, but it was close, right on the edge of the strike zone. For an instant, Diamondbacks pitcher Corbin Burnes and catcher Gabriel Moreno just stood there, looking at each ...

It's a meld of robotic precision and human oversight, a compromise allowing a limited number of challenges per game to ensure accuracy in the strike zone. Fans and players alike want to see if ABS ...

New for this year's spring training, a majority of games in the Cactus and Grapefruit League will feature the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system. Each team will be given two challenges ...

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 ...