OSAKA -- A 58-year-old IT company worker living in the western Japan town of Koryo in Nara Prefecture is working hard to develop his own "robot umpire･･･ ...

The robot umpire is coming to college baseball, at least on an experimental basis. The NCAA Baseball Rules Committee on ...

Walks are up 7.3% as pitches in the strike zone dropped markedly, and the average time of games increased by 5 minutes ...

Walks are up 7.3% as pitches in the strike zone dropped markedly through the first full month of Major League Baseball's 2026 ...

The Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them, will be tested this spring. A computerized system that calls ...

San Francisco — New York's José Caballero thought for sure the pitch from Logan Webb had missed the strike zone, so he challenged the human umpire's call - and made major league history in the process ...

Colorado avoided falling behind when the robot umpire changed Brett Baty's bases-loaded walk to an inning-ending called third strike in the first, and Jose Quintana got his first win of the season as ...

Analysis of the impact of the Automated Ball and Strike System (ABS) on MLB 2026: success statistics, record attendance, and the new game dynamics.

Arizona Diamondbacks closer Paul Sewald knows that — in theory — Major League Baseball’s new Automated Ball-Strike system ...

The Automatic Ball/Strike System has upheld 53.4% of challenges (1,030 of 1,928), with catchers far more successful than ...

MLB's first month with robot umps: walks up 7.3%, pitches in zone down, games five minutes longer, attendance up 2.8% under ...