Robot umpires to make All-Star Game debut, another step toward possible regular-season use in 2026

Atlanta – Tarik Skubal considers the typing area of the robot referees differently.

“I have this thing where I think everything is a strike until the referee calls him a ball,” said the Al Cy Young de Detroit prize before his departure for the American League during the Tuesday evening star match.

MLB has experienced the automated ball ball system in minor leagues since 2019 and will use it in an All-Star game for the first time this summer. Each team receives two challenges and keeps the challenge if it succeeds.

“The launchers think that everything is a strike. Then you go back and look at it, and it’s two, three balls,” Pittsburgh said on Monday, starting his second consecutive match for the National League. “We should not be those who dispute it.”

MLB defines the top of the automated striking area at 53.5% of the height of a striker and the bottom at 27%, based the decision on the middle of the plate, 8 1/2 inches from the front and 8 1/2 inches from the rear. This contrasts with the area of the rules of rules called by the arbitrators, which says that the area is a cube.

“I have done some rehabilitation with that. I agree.” Aaron judge and Jose Altuve should have major boxes of different sizes. They obviously thought about it. As long as that is understood, I think everything will be fine. “

Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred provides that the system will be taken into account by the 11 -sports men’s competition committee, which includes six management representatives.

Many launchers have serious to let their sensors and managers trigger ball calls / strike. The teams won 52.2% of their challenges during the spring training test. Strikers won exactly 50% of their 596 challenges and the defense of 54%, the catchors succeeded 56% of the time and the launchers 41%.

The renowned temple Joe Torre, an AL honorary coach promotes the system. After his management career, he worked for MLB and helped supervise an extended video review in 2014.

“You couldn’t ignore it with all technology,” he said. “You couldn’t sit down and make an excuse for:” Look at what really happened “the next day.”

Now 84, Torre recalled how his Yankees teams have benefited from the appels in the playoffs at least twice, one of which involves the typing area.

With the World Series’s opening match in 1998 tied and the bases loaded with two seventh-round withdrawals, Tino Martinez took a 2-2 land from Mark Langston from San Diego who seemed to be a strike but was called a Ball of Richie Garcia. Martinez struck a big slam on the next field for an advance of 9-5, and the Yankees managed a scan of four games.

When asked if he was happy that there was no robot referee, Torre smiled and said, “Perhaps.”

Then he added without an prompt: “Well, not to mention the Home Run that throwing away.”

His benchmark was to make Home Run de Derek Throwing during the opening of the 1996 AL Championship series, when the 12-year-old fan, Jeffrey Maier reached the wall to tear the ball over the Glove from the right defender of Baltimore, Tony Tarasco.

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