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MLB Unveils New Challenge System Involving Robot Umpires for Spring Training
This year's MLB spring training could prove more consequential than any in years past as MLB will experiment with ABS, the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, to ensure the home plate umpire gets as many ball and strike calls correct as possible. On Thursday, the league announced how exactly this new challenge system will unfold.
MLB sees very first challenge using Automatic Balls-Strikes system in spring training
For the first time in MLB history, a pitch was challenged using the new Automated Ball-Strikes system — and the call on the field was overturned.
Cubs' Cody Poteet makes first ABS challenge in spring training and wins
Cody Poteet successfully challenged a fastball he threw in the Cubs' spring training opener with MLB's Automated Ball-Strike System.
Robot umps make early impact: Cubs pitcher wins first ABS challenge in spring training game
It took just one inning for the Chicago Cubs right-hander to be the first player to successfully challenge a ball-strike call in a big-league spring training game, overturning a called ball from home-plate umpire Tony Randazzo to a strike against Los Angeles Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy.
Players 1, Umpires 0: Cubs hurler Cody Poteet makes first ABS challenge in spring training and wins
Chicago Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet believed the 95 mph fastball he threw to Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy was in the strike zone
WATCH: Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet wins first automated ball-strike challenge of 2025 spring training
As you may have picked up, Poteet appealed the ball ruling by tapping the top of the head. Review of the pitch indeed flipped it from a called ball to a strike, which means Poteet
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Roupp to start spring opener in search of rotation spot
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Spring will start in Mississippi soon. See what the National Weather Service is predicting
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Dodgers pitcher takes 106-mph line drive to head in scary spring training moment
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Texas drops spring game in favor of NFL-style OTAs
Texas appears to have joined a growing list of prominent college football programs by dropping the annual spring game in ...
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Soto to make Mets' spring debut in opener on Saturday
The Mets won’t have to wait long to see their $765 million acquisition in action. Juan Soto will be in the lineup Saturday ...
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Spring break is coming up. Beach laws to know before arriving in Myrtle Beach, SC area
The Grand Strand boasts 60 miles of sandy beaches. Here are important laws to remember when swimming, surfing or strolling ...