Salvador Perez and the Kansas City Royals have been baseball’s best at utilizing their robot challenges through the first weekend of the Automated Ball-Strike System.
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Here's how to stay safeJury finds Instagram and YouTube liable in a landmark social media addiction trialDo-it-yourself projects can save money and build confidence, or do the oppositeIsraeli police prevent Catholic leaders from celebrating Palm Sunday Mass at Jerusalem churchEl papa León XIV rechaza en Domingo de Ramos las afirmaciones de que Dios justifica la guerraSportsKansas City Royals’ Salvador Perez high-fives teammates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Saturday, March 28, 2026, in Atlanta. Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System confirms a call after Cincinnati Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson challenged , call on the field, Boston Red Sox’s Jarren Duran walks during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Cincinnati, Sunday, March 29, 2026. Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Mike Trout reacts after striking out as the ABS replay shows on the screen during the first inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros in Houston, Sunday, March 29, 2026. A call is overturned to a walk by the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, displayed on the stadium screens, after Cincinnati Reds’ Will Benson challenged at pitch result during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Cincinnati, Saturday, March 28, 2026. Kansas City Royals’ Salvador Perez high-fives teammates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Saturday, March 28, 2026, in Atlanta. Kansas City Royals’ Salvador Perez high-fives teammates in the dugout after hitting a solo home run in the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Saturday, March 28, 2026, in Atlanta. Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System confirms a call after Cincinnati Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson challenged , call on the field, Boston Red Sox’s Jarren Duran walks during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Cincinnati, Sunday, March 29, 2026. Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System confirms a call after Cincinnati Reds catcher Tyler Stephenson challenged , call on the field, Boston Red Sox’s Jarren Duran walks during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Cincinnati, Sunday, March 29, 2026. Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Mike Trout reacts after striking out as the ABS replay shows on the screen during the first inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros in Houston, Sunday, March 29, 2026. Los Angeles Angels designated hitter Mike Trout reacts after striking out as the ABS replay shows on the screen during the first inning of a baseball game against the Houston Astros in Houston, Sunday, March 29, 2026. A call is overturned to a walk by the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, displayed on the stadium screens, after Cincinnati Reds’ Will Benson challenged at pitch result during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Cincinnati, Saturday, March 28, 2026. A call is overturned to a walk by the Automated Ball-Strike Challenge System, displayed on the stadium screens, after Cincinnati Reds’ Will Benson challenged at pitch result during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox in Cincinnati, Saturday, March 28, 2026. Salvador Perez and the Kansas City Royals have been baseball’s best at utilizing their robot challenges through the first weekend of the, while San Francisco’s Heliot Ramos and Cincinnati’s Eugenio Suárez were the only batters who went 2-0 — Suárez won his appeals on consecutive pitches. Three-time MVP Mike Trout of the Los Angeles Angels is 3-1 on challenges.Kansas City and Arizona were the only perfect teams, with the Royals 4-0 and Arizona 3-0. Houston was 0-6 and St. Louis was 0-3.“1-1 counts. Counts that are going to end the at-bat. Those are big challenge times,” said Phillies manager Rob Thomson, whose team went 4-3. Challenges had a 53.7% success rate through 47 games. There were 175 challenges, an average of 3.7 per game. Catchers succeeded on 59 of 92 challenges for a 64% rate, but batters on 33 of 78 for a 42% rate. There were just five challenges by pitchers, with Baltimore’s Ryan Helsley and the Athletics’ Hogan Harris winning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Edwin Díaz, Houston’s Roddery Muñoz and Philadelphia’s Zach Pop losing.C.B. Bucknor had the poorest ABS results among umpires when six of eight challenges of his calls were successful during Cincinnati’s 6-5, 11-inning win on Saturday. All six overturned calls involved strikes being changed to balls. The two confirmed calls involved a ball and a strike.“I feel bad for them because everybody has a bad day,” Thomson said of the umpires. “The last thing you want to see is somebody get embarrassed. I don’t care who it is, player, coach, umpire. I don’t want to ever see anybody get embarrassed playing this game.” Minnesota’s Derek Shelton became the first manager ejected for arguing an ABS call on Sunday. He was tossed in the ninth inning of a game against Baltimore after complaining that Helsley waited too long to signal for a review.to a system based on 12 Hawk-Eye cameras that measure whether a pitch crosses the strike zone with accuracy of about one-sixth of an inch.
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