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

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 ...

The Arkansas Razorbacks never stopped fighting over the weekend and were rewarded with their highest-ranked series win in program history by defeating No. 2 Flo ...

Two Maryville Parks and Recreation members received Missouri Parks and Recreation Association awards for their services, and ...

The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.

Jeffery A. Salter/Sports Illustrated Umpire training requires serious attention to the rules. (That’s both the Official Baseball Rules and the separate yet equally dense Major League Baseball ...

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 ...

On a special episode (first released on March 21, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Technology and tradition are converging this spring training as AI-based umpires ... for fans? USA TODAY MLB ...

Data and feedback from players, coaches, and umpires ... for baseball operations. “What we came up with was to compromise on the issue with this challenge system. Need a break? Play the USA ...

Hintz and the Smithsonian Institution received funding from the National Science Foundation, the Lemelson Foundation, the United States ... funder. Baseball fans tuning into spring training ...

Spring training presents players with an opportunity ... when Opening Day rolls around in a couple weeks. That applies to umpires too, apparently, as MLB ump Quinn Wolcott had an internal ...