Cubs' Cody Poteet Wins 1st-Ever Automated Ball-Strike Challenge of MLB Spring Training
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WATCH: Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet wins first automated ball-strike challenge of 2025 spring training
As you may have picked up, Poteet appealed the ball ruling by tapping the top of the head. Review of the pitch indeed flipped it from a called ball to a strike, which means Poteet
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ABS challenge system early hit as it makes MLB debut in Dodgers-Cubs spring training game
The automated ball-strike challenge system made its MLB debut Thursday in the Dodgers-Cubs spring training game. It's an early hit.
Cubs' Cody Poteet makes first ABS challenge in spring training and wins
Cody Poteet successfully challenged a fastball he threw in the Cubs' spring training opener with MLB's Automated Ball-Strike System.
How Houston Astros view baseball's latest experiment: the automated ball-strike challenge system
Technology aiding ball and strike calls in Major League Baseball may not be a matter of if, but when. “I know in the future it’s coming,” Houston Astros shortstop Jeremy Peña said. “Something with the automatic strike zone is going to come.
Dodgers 'don't hate the idea' of MLB's automated ball/strike system
There are no immediate plans to introduce the system in regular-season games yet. Questions remain about how large a role it should have in games that count.
Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) presents challenges for MLB: Crowquill
Major League Baseball (MLB) is introducing robots to spring training this year on a trial basis in the form of the ABS (Alternate Ball-Strike System). ABS will peer over the home plate umpire’s shoulder to provide the right call if a team challenges the ump’s ball or strike call.
How MLB will use the Automated Ball-Strike System, ABS, during Spring Training
Major League Baseball will use the new technology during select 2025 Spring Training games to get real-time results and gather feedback.How MLB will use the Automated Ball-Strike System, ABS, during S
Why ball-strike challenges decided by MLB robo umps are the start of something good
You’re going to love the robo ump. It’s here. It debuted Thursday in the first MLB spring training game. Nobody cried, nobody died. It’s fast, it’s easy, it works. Baseball has thrown some extra French pastry into the mechanism to needlessly slow the process,
MLB’s Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System to be used in 8 Braves spring training games
Major League Baseball’s Automatic Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) will be used in eight Atlanta Braves games this spring.
Rise of the Robots: MLB’s Automated Ball-Strike System Flawless in Spring Debut
Major League Baseball is back. And the robots have arrived. The defending World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers opened Spring Training Thursday at Camelback Ranch in Glendale, Arizona, when they hosted the Chicago Cubs in the first MLB game (albeit an exhibition game) of 2025.
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Max Muncy's first homer of Spring Training
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Max Muncy's wife Kellie reacts to Dodgers star crushing BP at Spring Training session
On Sunday, Max Muncy's wife, Kellie, took to her Instagram story to share a post from the Dodgers' official account, featuring her husband as he crushed a ball while taking batting practice.
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Dodgers get first look at MLB’s automated ball/strike challenge system: ‘Don’t hate the idea’
“I told Muncy not to challenge,” Roberts joked of veteran third baseman Max Muncy, a famously selective ... In the Dodgers’ 12-4 spring training loss to the Chicago Cubs on Thursday at ...
Players 1, umpires 0: Cubs hurler Cody Poteet makes first ABS challenge in spring training and wins
The first test of the Automated Ball-Strike System went off without a hitch Thursday, with Randazzo quickly reversing the ...
Robot umps make early impact: Cubs pitcher wins first ABS challenge in spring training game
It took just one inning for the Chicago Cubs right-hander to be the first player to successfully challenge a ball-strike call ...
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Max Muncy's first home run of Spring Training
Max Muncy hammers a three-run home run to left-center field, tying the game at 5 in the bottom of the 2nd inning ...
Toronto Blue Jays' Max Scherzer Mows Down St. Louis Cardinals in Spring Training Debut
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Ex-Dodger Gavin Lux embraces new role with Reds: ‘You have that chip on your shoulder’
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