{"id":544737,"date":"2026-03-16T20:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544737\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:28:10","slug":"mlb-to-test-robot-umpire-tech-for-checked-swings-in-triple-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/544737\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB to test robot umpire tech for checked swings in Triple-A"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA - MAY 21: Gabriel Arias #13 of the Cleveland Guardians strikes out on a check swing in the ninth inning against the Minnesota Twins during game one of a doubleheader at Target Field on May 21, 2025 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Photo by Stephen Maturen\/Getty Images)\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Z3WODXGHTNADXNEWNJUKUJQEB4.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"534\"\/>MLB\u2019s experiment of a robot umpire technology system allowing challenges to checked swing calls is \u201cmoving up from Class A to Triple-A.\u201d Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">MLB\u2019s experiment of a robot umpire technology system allowing challenges to checked swing calls is \u201cmoving up from Class A to Triple-A.\u201d MLB will also test \u201cmoving second base slightly to position it entirely within the infield,\u201d which would reduce by 9 inches the distance between first and second, and between second and third. The league will \u201ctry out reducing permissible disengagements by pitchers from two to one per plate appearance and stricter limits on batter timeouts and resetting the pitch clock for issues with PitchCom.\u201d There will also be a test allowing \u201cstarting pitchers to re-enter games in the lowest level\u201d of MiLB, though it is \u201cnot expected this test will lead to MLB implementation\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/robot-umpires-checked-swings-5713ca095792aa49a9252e8053b2b5c1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">AP, 3\/16<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MLB\u2019s experiment of a robot umpire technology system allowing challenges to checked swing calls is \u201cmoving up from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,4034,591,85],"class_list":["post-544737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baseball","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}