Imagine you’re a baseball hitter in the batter’s box. You take a pitch for a called strike, and as you’ve done many times before, you adjust your helmet by putting your hand atop the equipment. Or maybe you’re a pitcher, recalibrating your cap after a particularly laborious pitch. Unfortunately, in both instances, you’ve just signaled to a home-plate umpire that you want to utilize an ABS challenge.
Now into the third week of MLB season, we’ve all heard of the ABS challenge, baseball’s new technological ball-and-strike arbiter that allows hitters, pitchers and catchers to essentially audit home-plate umpires in real time.
