Major League Baseball's competition committee approved the automated strike zone challenge system for the 2026 season on Tuesday, the league announced. The 11-person committee consists of six owners, ...

The fastball of both starting pitchers was a dominant topic during the pregame show before Game 2 of the NLCS.

MLB’s Joint Competition Committee voted 9-2 to approve the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system on Tuesday, Sept. 23, two ...

Xander Bogaerts can’t wait for the automated ball-strike system. The Padres’ shortstop went off when talking to reporters ...

Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the strike zone.

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s technological revolution continues as Major League Baseball officially announced that robot umpires – or more precisely, the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system – ...

SAN FRANCISCO — It took only a few minutes of talking with Cardinals starter Miles Mikolas about Major League Baseball’s game-changing adoption of the Automated Ball Strike system for 2026 before the ...

The robots are officially coming. Major League Baseball will be using the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) beginning in the 2026 season. Fans have been clamoring for this for years so ...

Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be introduced in ...

The robot umps are here. Major League Baseball’s competition committee on Tuesday afternoon approved the introduction of the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, for the 2026 regular season. Every ...

Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues in 2026 after Major League Baseball’s 11-man competition committee on Tuesday approved use of the Automated Ball/Strike System. ABS will be introduced in ...

Robot umpires are getting called up to the big leagues next season after Major League Baseball's 11-man competition committee ...