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

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

NEW YORK — Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers. Major League Baseball said ...