Dodgers ‘don't hate the idea’ of MLB’s automated ball/strike system
LA TimesA replay shows on the scoreboard using the Automated Ball-Strike System during Thursday’s Dodgers-Cubs game at Camelback Ranch. So I said, ‘Save your challenges.’” In the Dodgers’ 12-4 spring training loss to the Chicago Cubs on Thursday at Camelback Ranch, Muncy obliged. After watching home plate umpire Tony Randazzo rule the pitch a ball, Poteet quickly tapped his head to signal for a challenge, triggering an immediate review using MLB’s automated ball-strike system. “Haven’t made a decision on if I’m a fan or not.” After experimenting with ABS at various levels of the minor leagues over the last five years, MLB decided to give it a trial run in spring training, installing the Hawk-Eye technology at select ballparks — the Dodgers’ Camelback Ranch among them — in its most ambitious effort yet to make balls and strikes reviewable. “When you get some really good catchers back there — like Will and Barnes, guys that can really stick a low pitch very well and make it look so much like a strike — you want to challenge it, but it’s a ball,” right-hander Bobby Miller, who experienced ABS during multiple stints in triple-A last year, said before Thursday’s game.
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