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GOODYEAR, Arizona – Depending on the perspective and/or number of beers applied to the evaluation process, the Cincinnati Reds either have no third baseman or three of them as they stare the ...
The New York Yankees are trailing against the Detroit Tigers because of a brutal Ball 4 call, and now it's snowing on Carlos ...
The Tigers batted around against the Mariners’ right-hander Monday, scoring six first-inning runs on their way to their first ...
NEW YORK — Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers. Major League Baseball said .
In the bottom of the sixth inning, with a runner on base, one out and facing a full count, Chisholm had a third strike called on him by the home plate umpire ... A memo from MLB regarding the ...
borderline strike calls from umpires, the players prevailed – but just barely. Major League Baseball’s tryout of a challenge system utilizing automatic ball-strike technology resulted in 52.2% ...
NEW YORK — Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges ... test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers. HT Image Major League Baseball said Wednesday ...
NEW YORK — Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers. Major League Baseball ...
(The broadcaster always noticed when an umpire was new.) Funneman’s assignment was third ... MLB does not consider the job less critical. Even a future with a fully automated strike zone would ...
The recently retired umpire Jim Reynolds, now MLB’s umpire supervisor, tells a story that illustrates what a hall of mirrors ball-and-strike calling has become: “I had one conversation with a ...