CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s technological revolution continues as Major League Baseball officially announced that robot umpires – or more precisely, the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system – ...

Automated balls and strikes have arrived in 2026, and the Phillies are already adjusting as Rob Thomson and players shared ...

How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the strike zone. In early testing, umpires wore ...

With the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system in line to be fully integrated in Major League games at the start of next season, it will mark the biggest rule change the sport has seen since ...

MLB will introduce robot umpires in 2026 with the Automated Ball-Strike System. Human umpires make calls, but teams can challenge them to the computer. The technology has been tested in the minors, ...

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) ...

Major League Baseball will implement automated ball and strike technology in 2026 following approval by the league’s 11-member competition committee [1]. The Automated Ball/Strike System (ABS) will ...

Major League Baseball will implement the automated Ball Strike System (ABS Challenge System) in 2026, it was announced on Tuesday. The Automated Ball Strike System (ABS) was used in Spring Training ...