ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - Major League Baseball’s Automatic Ball-Strike Challenge System (ABS) will be used in eight Atlanta Braves games this spring.
The system will be tested in roughly 60% of Cactus and Grapefruit League games to determine whether the system is suitable for major league games in the future.
The league got its first taste of the ABS system on Thursday when Chicago Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet asked for a review in the bottom of the first inning against the Los Angeles Dodgers during a Max Muncy at-bat. A fastball was called a ball by home plate umpire Tony Randazzo and Poteet believed it caught a piece of the plate.