The first WBC game, Australia vs Chinese Taipei, was overshadowed by a flaw that's hard to overlook thanks to its worst ...

The “human element” in baseball leads to human error. Such has been the case since the Cincinnati Red Stockings became the first professional baseball team back ...

And you think you had a tough day at the office. One umpire had five calls consecutively overturned by the automated ball-strike challenge system during Tuesday’s Pirates-Red Sox Grapefruit League ...

It took 150 years for pro baseball umpires to get good at calling balls and strikes. And when they finally did, that's when we brought in ABS.

We took real umpires, got them drunk, and tested how well they could still make calls. It starts funny, but the mistakes stack up fast once the pressure hits. Some calls are shockingly close, and ...

Sabalenka returned to a fourth consecutive Australian Open final with a straight-sets win over Svitolina, with the call for hindrance from umpire Louise Azemar Engzell coming in the first point of the ...

The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System has been widely welcomed by Major League Baseball fans this spring in an ...

A couple of veteran MLB umpires have decided to hang up the mask and chest protector. Umpires Phil Cuzzi and Mark Carlson announced their retirements on ...

How much difference can one erroneous ball/strike call make? Most of them don’t make much difference at all. But just one can make a huge difference, even if there’s rarely a good way to know one way ...

The ABS challenge system makes its way to the MLB regular season for the first time. Here's everything you need to know about how it works.