The Major League Baseball season in 2026 brings with it a new gesture to a sport full of hand signals: the head tap. Players across MLB will be tapping their head as the season goes along as part of ...

Sept. 23 (UPI) --Major League Baseball entered an age of robot umpiring Tuesday after a league committee approved a high-tech system for players to challenge calls. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) ...

Automated ball-strike challenges are coming to Major League Baseball next season. A Tuesday vote from the MLB Joint Competition Committee, an 11-person group that includes six team owners, four ...

ABS has been the talk of the MLB season. Here's what those in the game say about the new rule -- and how it changes their jobs.

PHOENIX –– When it comes to the new ball-strike challenge system being implemented in Major League Baseball this year, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts doesn’t yet have any hard-and-fast rules for his ...

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in a spring training game against the Boston Red Sox last week – so ...

PHOENIX — Before the first major league spring game to include an automated challenge system for reviewing balls and strikes, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had only one rule. “I told Muncy not to ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. MLB announced Tuesday that the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Major League Baseball will introduce an Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System beginning in the 2026 season, allowing players to contest umpire calls on balls and strikes for the ...