Sept. 23 (UPI) --Major League Baseball entered an age of robot umpiring Tuesday after a league committee approved a high-tech system for players to challenge calls. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

Major League Baseball's trial of the automated balls and strikes challenge system is experimental no more. The "robot" umpires are coming to MLB starting next season. The league announced on Tuesday, ...

Automated ball-strike challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season. A Tuesday vote from the MLB Joint Competition Committee, an 11-person group that includes six team owners, four ...

Robotic umpires are coming to Major League Baseball in 2026, the league announced Tuesday. They will arrive only partially, at least for now, in the form of a challenge system by which batters, ...

Cincinnati Reds manager Terry Francona admitted that he’s not worried about Major League Baseball’s upcoming shift to an automated ball-strike system. The league announced in September that the 2026 ...

The ABS Challenge System was first utilized in MLB during spring training in 2025. | Mike Lang / Sarasota Herald-Tribune / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images MLB games will look different in spring ...

It's been a hotly debated topic ever since the coaches' challenge was introduced to Major League Baseball back in 2014. Now, the time has finally come. MLB has approved a new Automated Balls and ...

Starting in the 2026 season, Major League Baseball players will be able to challenge called balls and strikes in regular and postseason games for the first time. The widely expected adoption of the ...

Robo-umps have arrived. Kinda. Beginning this season, Major League Baseball will use the ABS (short for automated balls and strikes) challenge system, so it's not full robo-umps, but there is now a ...

Major League Baseball will implement an automated balls and strikes challenge system starting next season. The system uses 12 cameras to track pitch location against a strike zone adjusted for each ...