The average miss of the 11 most accurate umps is 0.7 inches or less, according to tracking website Tap the Challenge. Mary DeCicco/MLB Photos via Getty Images Most businesses would balk at creating a ...

BALTIMORE -- Samuel Basallo made a little history when the Orioles catcher became the first major leaguer to end a game with a successful challenge via the automated ball-strike system. No word on ...

Major League Baseball has implemented the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system this season and it has been a huge hit. No pun intended. The players and fans love it. Here is how it works: Each ...

SEATTLE -- The New York Yankees won all five of their challenges utilizing the automated ball-strike system during Monday night's 2-1 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Though manager Aaron Boone would ...

World Series MVP and Cy Young contender Yoshinobu Yamamoto received a hero’s welcome as he took the mound for the Dodgers on Opening Day. But then something new and extraordinary happened. After ...

Over the season's first three days, the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system has changed things drastically. Steph Chambers / Getty Images It took all of five days for Major League Baseball’s ...

Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here, I pontificate about matters related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

The 2026 MLB season is officially here, but not without one of the most major changes in the history of the sport. After a century-and-a-half of complete human element behind home plate, batters, ...

With a new Major League Baseball season here, a major change will play a unique role in how the year progresses. Coming to the majors this season is the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, or ABS ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Baseball’s new reality has arrived. Blink, and you’d miss it. The Giants came out on the winning side of the first Automated Balls and Strikes (ABS) challenged pitch in MLB history.

After tinkering with the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system for a few years, MLB brought the technology to the regular season in 2026. It didn’t take long before the new technology was put ...

The ABS challenge system has officially come to Major League Baseball. On Wednesday night, during the season’s opening game between the Giants and the Yankees, New York shortstop José Caballero became ...