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 ...
Dodgers-Cubs Spring Training Game Features First Successful Ball-Strike Challenge
The "automated ball-strike challenge system" or ABS will be active during 60% of spring training games this year, allowing pitchers, catchers and batters to call for automated ball-strike call reviews ...
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 ...
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Everything to know about the MLB's ball-strike challenge system at spring training
MLB players can challenge ball and strike calls. The camera-based system is only an experiment for now — but it has the ...
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MLB spring training 2025 features robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges
What to know about robot umpires, automated ball-strike testing, challenges at 2025 MLB spring training Cactus League, ...
MLB's automated ball-strike system explained as spring training games kick off with robo-ump challenges
This spring training will introduce a new element to the action: for the first time, MLB will employ the automated ball-strike system (ABS for short) during big-league contests. ABS is, for those ...
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Geisinger Wyoming Valley RNs deliver 10-day strike notice to executives
WILKES-BARRE — 800 registered nurses from Geisinger Wyoming Valley have delivered a 10-day notice to Geisinger executives stating that they will strike for five days beginning on Monday ...
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MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
Ogasawara, who has kept his ERA under 3.15 in two of his last three seasons in Japan’s Nippon Professional Baseball Organization, provides Washington with plenty of options. Shinnosuke Ogasawara ...
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Baseball star Shohei Ohtani’s ex-interpreter is sentenced to nearly 5 years in sports betting case
SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The former interpreter for baseball star Shohei Ohtani was sentenced Thursday to nearly five years in prison for bank and tax fraud after he stole nearly $17 million ...
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18,000 Costco workers threaten to strike and ‘won’t work a day past Jan. 31’ if their contract demands aren’t met
A Teamsters union of 18,000 Costco workers has voted to authorize a strike within the next two weeks if their contract demands are not met. The union claims in a statement that the wholesaler and ...
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Day Without Immigrants protest strike closes some NYC businesses
(Rose Abuin / New York Daily News) Some businesses in New York City were closed Monday as part of A Day Without Immigrants, a nationwide protest strike calling attention to the role immigrants ...
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The Strike
How a small hunger strike against solitary confinement turned into a massive statewide protest. The high-security Pelican Bay prison was designed for mass-scale solitary confinement, often for a ...