As we enter the final week of the 2025 MLB regular season, the league has made a significant announcement, stating that it will implement an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System for the entirety of ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --Major League Baseball entered an age of robot umpiring Tuesday after a league committee approved a high-tech system for players to challenge calls. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

Robotic umpires are coming to Major League Baseball in 2026, the league announced Tuesday. They will arrive only partially, at least for now, in the form of a challenge system by which batters, ...

Major League Baseball will use the automated ball-strike challenge system during the All-Star Game on Tuesday in Atlanta, an MLB source confirmed to NBC News. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

Only the batter, pitcher or catcher can challenge an umpire’s ball or strike call with the ABS system. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Human umpires will remain behind the plate calling balls and ...

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 ...

A view of the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System’s call of a ball as it appeared during the Seattle Mariners game on Friday. (Screen grab via Mariners.TV) The Seattle Mariners opened their Spring ...

NEW YORK – Will there be fewer of Aaron Boone’s famous tirades about the strike zone in 2026? Well, maybe. On Tuesday, MLB’s Joint Competition Committee adopted the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...