MLB's Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) is here. Learn more about the history of baseball's strike zone and the evolution of ABS.

Royals catcher Salvador Perez overturned three called balls using ABS challenges. Players tap hat/helmet within ~2 seconds; only batter, pitcher or catcher may challenge. ABS uses Hawk‑Eye cameras and ...

MLB’s new ABS challenge system is changing how teams handle balls and strikes, and the Yankees currently sit right in the ...

The New York Yankees and New York Mets played game two of this weekend’s Subway Series on Saturday at Citi Field, and the ...

Ahead of the 2026 regular season, Major League Baseball incorporated the automated balls and strikes system. Designed to prevent egregious missed calls from impacting games, as they all too often have ...

MLB's new automated balls and strikes challenge system has unexpectedly shrunk the strike zone and pushed walk rates to their highest in a decade.

After years of testing in the minor leagues and spring training, baseball’s new Automated Ball-Strike challenge system has finally arrived in the majors. For the first time, big league players have ...

PEORIA, Ariz. — Major League Baseball first defined a strike zone in the late 1880s, when the game shifted away from a batter’s ability to call for a “high,” “low” or “fair” pitch at the start of a ...

The ABS Challenge System is now one-month old in Major League Baseball and it has a message for you: “Honey, I shrunk the strike zone!” One month is not enough to conclude much in fantasy baseball, ...

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The strike zone as called by MLB umpires has long differed in practice from the rulebook definition of the strike zone. But this year, it’s become a different problem. It used to be that umpires’ ...