No, MLB players cannot challenge whether or not they meant to challenge. That decision, even with robots in the ascendancy, ...

“If they create a robot umpire that calls every strike exactly right,” the late, very entertaining baseball umpire Ron Luciano once said, “hitters will never let it survive. Whenever it makes a call ...

MILWAUKEE — To baseball umpires, timing matters. By the time registration opened at 8 a.m., more than 100 aspiring professional umpires had already arrived at the Milwaukee Brewers ballpark for Major ...

Count columnist Jason Williams among those who think MLB's Automated Ball-Strike system is bad for the game. No matter how bad umpire CB Bucknor is, he doesn't deserve to be embarrassed by the system.

Every moment of pretty much any major sporting event can be dissected in high-definition these days, and officials and umpires are spending more and more time staring at a TV screen to review close ...