Baseball is often a game of inches, determined by the thinnest of margins. The post Rays Pay the Price Against Angels as ...

The Phillies are 7-2 going into their series in Atlanta, and they’ve looked good doing it. At the top of the list of ...

Another day, another CB Bucknor Special behind the plate. If you tuned into Sunday’s Rockies-A’s game hoping for a fair fight, you got a 12-5 Colorado ...

When Major League Baseball introduced the 'ABS' (automatic balls/strikes) challenge system to spring training games this year, it was seen as a compromise: betw ...

Working behind the plate in the Rockies' 12-5 win over the Athletics, Bucknor missed 15 ball-strike calls with four ...

Manfred did note MLB umpires are "more receptive" to the robot-style system if it were to be adopted, but the next round of ...

MLB is testing robo umps in spring training, letting players challenge ball and strike calls using Hawk-Eye tech. The system ...

Bubic (1-0) allowed three hits and walked two in his first start since April 15, 2023. The 27-year-old left-hander had Tommy ...

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...

Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...

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 ...

Well, wonder no more. According to data released Wednesday by MLB, 52.2% of ball-strike challenges this spring resulted in a successful overturn of the home-plate umpire’s original call -- up from ...