The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) ...

New York Yankees infielder Jazz Chisholm made a totally disrespectful move toward a home plate umpire in Tuesday’s spring training game, but he managed to get away with it. Chisholm was at the ...

And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the personality of a junkyard dog has always been a unique character in the ...

In this year’s baseball spring training, the new Automated Ball-Strike System is helping settle challenges to home plate pitch calls.

They were engaged in every at-bat, whether it was urging the home-plate umpire to ask for help on a check swing by pointing in unison up the first-base line, or calling foul balls or firing up their ...

The Automated Ball-Strike System allows the players closest to the strike zone — the pitcher, catcher and batter — to dispute a call by the home plate umpire. A simple tap of their helmet or ...

Opinions range widely, with catchers disagreeing over whether it hampers their craft and others concerned about accuracy.

In the bottom of the sixth inning, with a runner on base, one out and facing a full count, Chisholm had a third strike called on him by the home plate ... only the batter, pitcher or catcher ...