If you paid attention to spring training at any point in the past five weeks, you may have noticed something a little different. No, it wasn’t this year’s edition of the gaudy hats, though those were ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A computerized system that calls balls and strikes is being tested during Major League Baseball spring training exhibition games after four years of experiments in the minor leagues.

Since Opening Day, over 7,000 challenges have been issued across MLB’s new ABS Challenge System, with 53% of challenged calls being overturned. Lots of ABS challenges were made in Sunday’s game.

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Do you miss those robots yet? We’ve spent the past five weeks watching them pop out of hiding, every time a catcher, hitter or pitcher tapped his head to ask his favorite robot umps ...