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Watch MLB's 1st ABS challenge change baseball forever

Watch MLB's first ABS challenge change baseball forever

SAN FRANCISCO — There it was, for the first time in Major League Baseball history, the outcome of a ball-strike call deciding by a machine.

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Everything you need to know about the new ABS Challenge System

At long last, player protest with ball or strike calls can be handled with something other than ineffectual arguing. Beginning with the 2026 MLB season, players will have the power to appeal the strike-zone judgments of human home-plate umpires by turning to the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) Challenge System,

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ABS challenge system is coming to MLB in 2026: Here's what you need to know

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Major League Baseball is changing … again. Amid an era that has already seen significant alterations to the sport, most of which have been received favorably by fans and players alike, MLB will introduce perhaps its most dramatic ...