{"id":482354,"date":"2026-02-18T05:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482354\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T05:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T05:47:16","slug":"mlb-removing-strike-zone-box-from-broadcasts-due-to-abs-system-the-mighty-790-kfgo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/482354\/","title":{"rendered":"MLB removing strike zone box from broadcasts due to ABS system | The Mighty 790 KFGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Major League Baseball broadcasts no longer will use the strike zone box to indicate where \u200bthe pitch was a ball \u200cor a strike, a move that coincides with the league\u2019s implementation of the automated ball-strike challenge system.<\/p>\n<p>The box itself still can \u200cbe \u200bused, but viewers \u2060will have to gauge \u2060for themselves whether the pitch was a ball or a strike.<\/p>\n<p>The change is being made so that \u200bplayers can\u2019t be tipped off through a signal as to whether \u2060to challenge a \u2060strike call. Teams will be \u200ballowed to challenge two calls in \u200beach regulation game.<\/p>\n<p>MLB will begin using \u200cthe ABS system this season after it was tested in Triple-A and during 2025 MLB spring training games. \u2060It will make its formal debut on March 25 on Opening Night when the \u2060New \u200cYork Yankees visit the San \u2060Francisco Giants in the \u200bfirst-ever \u200clive MLB broadcast on Netflix.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith \u200bABS now \u2060determining the zone,\u201d an MLB spokesperson said, per Yahoo, \u201cwe want fans to trust the system without second-guessing every call through a digital strike box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Field \u200bLevel Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Major League Baseball broadcasts no longer will use the strike zone box to indicate where \u200bthe pitch was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":482355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-482354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/482355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}