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

The Mariners lost to the San Francisco Giants on Friday afternoon, 10-9, in 11 innings. While the home plate umpire is not at ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

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

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

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Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 a camera array called the Automatic ...

So, for now, umpires, batters, and the occasional irate manager can still meet at home plate to snarl over balls and strike ...