Major League Baseball introduces a challenge system for the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) during Spring Training, allowing players to appeal umpire calls using Hawk-Eye technology. This innovative approach, where human umpires continue to call balls and strikes, enables players to challenge perceived errors and seek reviews. Each team has two challenges per game, greatly increasing the stakes of crucial calls, such as strikeouts. This testing phase is the culmination of nearly six years of development, incorporating extensive trials to fine-tune the technology and approach.
For the first time ever this month, major league players who disagree with an umpire's rendering of the strike zone can do something about it.
Major League Baseball is testing the challenge system version of the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) in roughly 60% of Spring Training games this preseason.
Human umpires call balls and strikes as usual, but Hawk-Eye technology measures each pitch relative to the strike zone.
Successful challenges are retained; if the umpire's call is confirmed, the team loses a challenge.
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