A handful of MLB teams are turning smart challenges into real runs and wins early. Dodgers and Diamondbacks lag behind, wasting challenges and missing chances to flip key calls late. The No. 5 hitter ...

Welcome to the 2026 MLB season, where the head tap has become the most important signal in baseball. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system is no longer a novelty. It is changing how games ...

Three weeks into the season, baseball's new automated balls and strikes (ABS) challenge system has begun to fade into the background. You couldn't not notice it that first weekend. It was new and ...

Anthony Kay had his back against the wall in the top of the third inning. One of the team's best starters to begin the year, Kay had a rough go following Jordan Leasure's opening performance. Kay ...

Adding the ABS challenge system generated a lot of buzz early on for MLB, and I think it is a good addition for the most part. Teams have been taking different approaches when it comes to challenging, ...

There’s no way this game show version of Automated Ball-Strike is going to be what baseball is still using in 2035. Eventually they’re going to get to using ABS on every pitch. So how about skipping ...

A walk-off via ABS challenge? It took less than a week for Major League Baseball to see the first of its kind. The system, in which a hitter, pitcher, or catcher can challenge a called ball or strike ...

BALTIMORE - We may have found a flaw in the Rangers’ new team-first approach to hitting. They are too polite. Nobody, it seems, wants to be the guy to waste an ABS challenge that could be saved for ...

Salvador Perez was a perfect 4-for-4 on ABS challenges early in the season. Royals emphasize saving challenges for later, especially two-strike situations. ABS uses 12 cameras with ~1/6-inch accuracy; ...

Just like with the pitch clock, the advent of robot umpires did not break Major League Baseball. The automated ball-strike system (ABS) debuted in the major leagues Wednesday after years of testing in ...

Feb 22, 2026; Fort Myers, Florida, USA; Boston Red Sox manager Alex Cora (13) looks on from the dugout during the third inning against the Toronto Blue Jays at JetBlue Park at Fenway South. Mandatory ...