In this year’s baseball spring training, the new Automated Ball-Strike System is helping settle challenges to home plate ...

Last spring the 48-year-old Pawol, who attended umpire school in 2015 and began umpiring in the minors in 2016, became the ...

Calling the pitch behind the plate? Former Hofstra softball star Jen Pawol ... and certainly enjoyed my introduction to her.” ...

He once took over a Babe Ruth team that no other coach wanted because its players were caught smoking and drinking, his ...

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

Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them. Starting in ...

A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition ...

The automated ball-strike system (ABS) has been used for minor league games, but it's getting rolled out for the first time in the big leagues during spring training.

Apr 30, 2023; Mexico City, Mexico; Home plate umpire Pat Hoberg (31 ... Kirby Lee-Imagn Images In February, Major League Baseball fired umpire Pat Hoberg after it was revealed he shared a legal ...