If the umpires attract your troubles for bad calls, you may have a new target soon: Major League baseball used your ABS, or automatic hair strike system to call the pitches for the first time on July 15, for the first time on July 15. If the trials run well in this season, it will probably be adopted for the regular season of 2026. But the challenges against the camera were an extraordinary rate of success.
ABS hawk uses iCex, which is rapidly common in high -speed sports sports. The cameras decide how a ball travels – in this case, in the strike zone – and equipped to make an initial call.
With a human umpire, batsmen and pitchers, the footage has a few seconds to review and challenge the call if they think that the automated system is wrong. This is a system with which MLB has tested since 2019 and is eventually ready to bring it to the national phase.
From this point of view, there has been some controversy, especially because the Hawk Eye Camera has been programmed to see the human umpire’s strike zone in a very different way. Instead of the standard form of strike zone for decades, ABS uses a two -dimensional rectangular standard that is automatically adjusted, which extends between 53.5 % and 27 % of the batsman’s height. Before each game, the batsmen are measured.
ABS did not perform like this in Bihar training – or the players are now more willing to test it.
Those worried about contradictions now have a new fuel for their worries. In the July 15 game, which was won by the National League in the Home Run Derby after nine innings, ended with a tie, four of the five challenges to ABS and the joint work of umpire Dan Isaa. This is much higher than the ABS Spring Training Test, where teams won only 50 % of their challenges.
MLB has not revealed definite plans about whether ABS can completely change the umpires, but at this time, on the human basis of the umpire, real -time reviews seem an integral part of the system.
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