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 ...

DC’s Absolute universe launched an arms race of just how freakishly huge you could make a comic book character when it kicked things off with the impressively wide Absolute Batman himself, a unit of a ...

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 ...

Less than a week into the 2026 Major League Baseball season and ABS (Automated Ball-Strike System) has already proven to be a massive success. But perhaps not for the reason MLB was expecting. The ...

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 ...

World Series MVP and Cy Young contender Yoshinobu Yamamoto received a hero’s welcome as he took the mound for the Dodgers on Opening Day. But then something new and extraordinary happened. After ...

Major League Baseball's Automated Ball-Strike challenge system has become a main character in the young season as everyone in the league tries to figure out how to navigate this brave new world.

The automated ball-strike (ABS) system has been implemented in Major League Baseball this year and here, on just the fifth day of the regular season, we have our first ABS-related ejection. Twins ...

C.B. Bucknor endured a horror show of an outing during the Reds' clash with the Red Sox on Saturday afternoon. Bucknor, a 26-year veteran behind home plate, has long been reviled for his inconsistent ...

SAN FRANCISCO – Aaron Judge may be among the most prominent beneficiaries of the new Automatic Ball-Strike (ABS) system, given the frequency with which the Yankees’ captain has been rung up on called ...

Major League Baseball’s new era arrived faster than expected. José Caballero became the first player in MLB history to use the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) challenge system during a regular-season game ...