Major League Baseball fired umpire Pat Hoberg after it was revealed he shared a legal sportsbook account with a professional gambler. Hoberg appeal ...

PHOENIX — The robo ump could kill K-Zone. On Thursday, Major League Baseball will employ what it calls the automated ball-strike system, or ABS, in a big-league spring training game for the ...

The pitch was called a ball, but it was close, right on the edge of the strike zone. For an instant, Diamondbacks pitcher Corbin Burnes and catcher Gabriel Moreno just stood there, looking at each ...

The ABS system features a strike zone that is seventeen inches wide—the width of home plate—and it stretches from 53.5 percent of a player's height at the top of the zone to 27 percent of ...

Vogt said Cantillo is at his best when he is commanding the strike zone, and that his stuff plays against big league hitters. “When Joey’s throwing strikes and attacking the zone, he’s as ...

In the bottom of the third inning of a matchup against the New York Yankees, Rays right-handed pitcher Eric Orze fired a 3-2 changeup high above the strike zone. When the home plate umpire called ...

Veteran MLB umpire Mike Muchlinski went viral on social media for his sense of humor after he got one of his strike zone calls challenged. Muchlinski was the home plate umpire for Tuesday’s ...

New for this year's spring training, a majority of games in the Cactus and Grapefruit League will feature the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system. Each team will be given two challenges ...

Most notably, umpire Pat Hoberg was recently fired from MLB for ... Along with having to get the balls and strike calls correct in an instant, they deal with the constant pressure from the players ...