The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're ...

Athletics outfielder Seth Brown made a strange bit of MLB history in Friday's win over the Seattle Mariners -- thanks to an ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...

Blue Jays manager John Schneider was not happy with a first-inning call on Friday night. And everyone at home heard him.

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

The Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS), which uses Hawk-Eye technology was rolled up from the minors into the majors for an ...

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The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...