In a stunning and controversial move, Major League Baseball announced last week that game broadcasts will no longer display ...

Using Hawk-Eye ball-tracking technology, the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System will allow MLB players to contest ...

Starting this season, batters, pitchers and catchers will have the ability to challenge ball and strike calls.

The 2026 season will mark another new innovation in the MLB with the introduction of the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system. Each team will start a game with two chances to challenge any ...

MLB's ABS challenge system is up and running this spring — and it's about to change baseball profoundly. Here's everything you need to know.

Major League Baseball broadcasts no longer will use the strike zone box to indicate where the pitch was a ball or a strike, a move that coincides with the league's implementation of the automated ball ...

It isn't clear exactly who will benefit the most from ABS challenges, but pitchers who can paint at the top of the zone might ...

Umpires first began calling both balls and strikes way back in 1864, and baseballers have been arguing about those calls ever since. Strike-zone judgment has been the subject of some untold number of ...

MLB's Automated Ball-Strike challenge system (ABS) is being implemented this spring and will stick around during the 2026 season, and some of the league's biggest stars are being affected in different ...

Major League Baseball is making a key change to umpiring this season, which will allow batters and pitchers to be able to challenge balls and strikes. It’s a technology-aided innovation many have been ...

The MLB strike zone is about to learn the same lesson that Bob Dylan famously learned in 1965: Go electric, and everything changes.

The MLB announced that it is removing the strike zone box from its live video broadcasts of games. The 2026 season will mark another new innovation in the MLB with the introduction of the Automated ...