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

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a Spring Training game against the Boston Red Sox last week – so ...

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

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.

Boston – Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora said Wednesday that newly acquired free agent Alex Bregman will play third base ...

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

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

Tennis umpires must be prepared to act fast and take charge during any interference in a match. But even Mohamed Lahyani could never have expected to find himself in the middle of a bee-zarre ...