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

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

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 ...

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) ...

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

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DAVY ANDREWS: Absolutely. The rule book strike zone, which is the one even now in spring training that umpires are calling, is the area over home plate, which is pentagonal, and it’s between the ...

(Forget the strike zone shown on a television broadcast ... It’s little surprise that “MLB umpire” is one job the American public seems particularly eager to replace with robots.

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 ...

He gave up a single and a walk to load the bases and put the tying run on second. But he got Starling Marte to bounce one ...