New York Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm made a totally disrespectful move toward a home plate umpire in Tuesday’s spring ...

The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...

In this year’s baseball spring training, the new Automated Ball-Strike System is helping settle challenges to home plate ...

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Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.

That was when we got a great reaction from the home plate umpire. As the videoboard showed that his ball call was correct, Muchlinski made the announcement as, "The call is surprisingly correct." ...

Veteran MLB umpire Mike Muchlinski went viral on social media for his sense of humor after he got one of his strike zone calls challenged. Muchlinski was the home plate umpire for Tuesday’s ...

New York Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm made a totally disrespectful move toward a home plate umpire in Tuesday’s spring training game, but he managed to get away with it. Chisholm was at the ...

Home plate umpire Jen Pawol calls a strike during the third inning of a March 10, 2024, spring training game between the Marlins and Astros in West Palm Beach, Fla. Royals catcher Freddy Fermin ...

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 ear buds and would hear “ball” or ...