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

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

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

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

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Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

Wonder how the new Automated Ball-Strike System fared during Spring Training? Well, wonder no more. According to data ...

Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...

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

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 ...