Robot umpires are coming to the big leagues this year. The Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System will be introduced in the form of a challenge system in which the home plate umpire makes each ...

For more than a century, baseball’s home plate umpires have called a ball or strike based on interpretation of a vague, ...

Surrounded by the orange glow of a safe lights, (from left) Director of Operations John Lilly and Prepress Production Manager Lora Ruzicka watch two work-flow monitors in the computer-to-plate room at ...