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 will implement automated ball and strike technology in 2026 following approval by the league’s 11-member competition committee [1]. The Automated Ball/Strike System (ABS) will ...

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 – ...

How does the Automated Ball-Strike System work? Stadiums are outfitted with cameras that track each pitch and judge whether it crossed home plate within the strike zone. In early testing, umpires wore ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — As Major League Baseball prepares to implement its new Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System, Guardians catcher Austin Hedges believes the teams that best master the ...

NEW YORK — 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 ...

MLB will introduce robot umpires in 2026 with the Automated Ball-Strike System. Human umpires make calls, but teams can challenge them to the computer. The technology has been tested in the minors, ...

With the Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system in line to be fully integrated in Major League games at the start of next season, it will mark the biggest rule change the sport has seen since ...

Baseball players will now be able to challenge the strike zone if they disagree with the umpire’s call. The Automated Ball-Strike System, or ABS as it will become known among the many abbreviations ...

No lineup had worse luck with missed calls behind the plate in 2025 than the Orioles. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...