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

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 ...

Umpire CB Bucknor probably lucked out there because Sunday would have ... Bucknor missed 15 ball-strike calls with four incorrectly called strikeouts. Some of them weren't even close.

Soto followed Lindor in the lineup, working a 1-2 count before being called out on strikes on a 92 mph changeup. Unhappy with the call, Soto exchanged a few words with the umpire before walking ...

The challenge system allows for pitchers or hitters to challenge an umpire's call with a gesture, usually by touching their helmet or cap. Since the system uses a fixed strike zone with technology ...

And while spring training is a time for teams to test out new ... the AI umpire. In some spring training games, baseball has been testing a robotic system to verify calls made by the home plate’s ...

Veteran umpire Laz Diaz threw Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Merrill Kelly and manager Torey Lovullo out of Tuesday’s 4-3 ...

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!

Spring training this year has featured another seismic twist: the chance for the pitcher, catcher, or batter to overturn the umpire’s ball or strike call with ... of a punch-out and his ...

I've always been a firm believer in this: Referees and umpires can ... the second missed call came with one out and and a runner at third. Vargas appeared to throw strike three to Tyler Fitzgerald ...

According to statistics released Wednesday by Major League Baseball, 52.2 percent of ball-strike challenges this spring resulted in a successful overturn of the home-plate umpire’s original call — up ...