Thursday's Cactus League opener, a 12-4 Cubs win, saw the first use of an automated ball-strike challenge system, commonly known as a "robot ump," between MLB teams. The Cubs used the challenge ...

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 ...

he watched the ball sail out of the park while very slowly making his way toward first base. The home plate ump wasn't a huge fan of that, as he quickly told Clark to get on his way.

It didn't take long for the ABS system to prove human umpires wrong during MLB's first spring training game of 2025. What if I told you there was once a day when human umpires ruled all? It didn't ...

Major League Baseball's exhibition season gets underway Thursday afternoon, when the Chicago Cubs and Los Angeles Dodgers open up the Cactus League. (Grapefruit League action commences Friday.

Major League Baseball is trying something new this spring as they're allowing teams to challenge two ball and strike calls per game with the ABS challenge system. Players, managers and fans have ...

LONDON -- A national-level chair umpire in the Dominican Republic, Juan Gabriel Castro, was suspended for six years and fined $6,000 by the International Tennis Integrity Agency on Monday for ...

The home plate ump wasn't a huge fan of that, as he quickly told Clark to get on his way. First, here's the home run: Here's a closer look at the ump quickly stepping in: Not a huge deal but many ...

So if you see players wearing out those iPads this spring, they may be enrolled in Robot Ump 101 class. The league is also open to holding ABS training sessions, before or after games, that would ...

Yankees starter Luis Gil also tested out the new robot ump system on Wednesday. “I think it’s good,” NorthJersey.com reports he said. “At the end of the day, we’re all human. Umpires…can make a ...

an automated ball and strike system — robo-ump, colloquially — will be in place for a major league game. MLB is rolling out automated ball-strike (ABS) technology in 13 spring training ...