A walk-off via ABS challenge? It took less than a week for Major League Baseball to see the first of its kind. The system, in which a hitter, pitcher, or catcher can challenge a called ball or strike ...

Where should the line be drawn when it comes to ABS? Katie Stratman / Imagn Images Shohei Ohtani homered three times in a four-game stretch, so it is safe to say that the baseball season is back and ...

A new way for MLB managers be ejected was just unlocked. Minnesota Twins skipper Derek Shelton was tossed from Sunday’s game against the Orioles in the ninth inning after arguing that Baltimore closer ...

C.B. Bucknor has endured a brutal start to the 2026 MLB season. Six of those calls were overturned, including this incredible sequence in the bottom of the sixth where he called a strike three that ...

Dan Bellino had his CB Bucknor moment during Monday’s game. Kurtz immediately tapped on his helmet to initiate an automated ball-strike (ABS) system challenge. In the end, it turned out that Bellino’s ...

The introduction of the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system has come with an interesting side effect: MLB players appear to be shrinking. Earlier this month, when teams unveiled players’ ...

Count columnist Jason Williams among those who think MLB's Automated Ball-Strike system is bad for the game. No matter how bad umpire CB Bucknor is, he doesn't deserve to be embarrassed by the system.

BALTIMORE -- Samuel Basallo made a little history when the Orioles catcher became the first major leaguer to end a game with a successful challenge via the automated ball-strike system. No word on ...

SEATTLE -- The New York Yankees won all five of their challenges utilizing the automated ball-strike system during Monday night's 2-1 loss to the Seattle Mariners. Though manager Aaron Boone would ...

From the first-ever ABS challenge to the first ejection involving an ABS challenge, here are all of MLB's firsts involving the new balls-and-strikes arbiter. There’s a first time for everything, but ...

The automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system has become the craze of the baseball universe through nearly two weeks of the MLB season. The instant tap of the head by a batter, catcher or pitcher ...