Imagine you’re a baseball hitter in the batter’s box. You take a pitch for a called strike, and as you’ve done many times before, you adjust your helmet by putting your hand atop the equipment. Or ...

Red Sox infielder Andruw Monasterio may be the leader in the clubhouse for worst ABS challenge of the young MLB season. During the sixth inning Tuesday of Boston’s 6-0 road loss to the Twins, ...

Big league teams are still getting used to the automated ball-strike system, but they learned Friday that there are no take-backs on a challenge. On an 0-2 pitch with one out in the top of the seventh ...

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 ...

A walk-off via ABS challenge? It took less than a week for Major League Baseball to see the first of its kind. The system, in which a hitter, pitcher, or catcher can challenge a called ball or strike ...

Samuel Basallo leaned to his left and stared intently, like a 3-point shooter in the NBA or a golfer on the PGA Tour. No, this wasn’t Basallo after he blasted his 437-foot home run to center field — ...

Albert Suárez celebrates with Samuel Basallo, whose quick thinking on an ABS challenge secured the Orioles' victory. Greg Fiume / Getty Images In a major-league first, a game ended Wednesday on a walk ...

The introduction of ABS challenges to MLB have created various firsts throughout the 2026 season. The first challenge? José Caballero. The first successful challenge? Francisco Alvarez. The first walk ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — MLB’s Automated Ball-Strike Challenge system has proven to be a challenge for the Guardians in the early part of this season. The reason is simple: they’re not very good at it. The ...

CB Bucknor is having a rough week. CB Bucknor is having a rough week. is the Verge’s weekend editor. He has over 18 years of experience, including 10 years as managing editor at Engadget. During ...

A misunderstanding benefited the Pittsburgh Pirates early in Sunday's game against the Chicago Cubs. In his second batter of the game, Bubba Chandler threw a pitch to Cubs designated hitter Moises ...