Major League Baseball umpires work in an environment of constant and often high-stakes scrutiny. The post “Angel Hernandez ...

UNC baseball's first game against Duke in a three-game series was won on the smallest of margins. So, it came down to two ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires. A situation is a flash of irritatio ...

Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...

What did we learn from watching the robot umps — and talking to people throughout the game about ABS — this spring? Let's discuss!

YOU MIGHT not know the name Gerry Davis, but if you were a Red Sox fan in 2004, he played a key role in one of the happiest moments of your life. Standing behind first baseman Doug Mientkiewicz as ...

The sport has seen a flurry of rule adjustments in just the past decade and a half, with more on the horizon. America's ...

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

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says robot umpires could be used as early as the 2026 regular ... retaliatory tariffs since ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game, making the men in blue barely noticeable. Bruce Lazaruk is regarded one of those types of umpires. However, while he might not be seen ...

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred says robot umpires could be used as early as ... Challenges averaged 4.1 per game. The overturn rate was slightly higher than the 50.6% for minor league games ...