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There's a First Time for Everything: Tracking All of MLB's ABS Challenge Firsts

From the first-ever ABS challenge to the first ejection involving an ABS challenge, here are all of MLB's firsts involving the new balls-and-strikes arbiter. There’s a first time for everything, but in baseball, firsts can be somewhat hard to come by ...
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ABS sparks first heated MLB ejection

MLB’s new automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system made a dramatic regular-season debut, culminating in the first ‘robo-ejection’ during the Orioles-Twins game. The ninth-inning reversal of a walk to a strikeout sparked a heated dispute over ...
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Shelton's ejection shows technology won't take the emotions out of ABS reviews

Balls and strikes are now reviewable in baseball, and that has added some drama to the first few days of the season. You might think that with a limited number of challenges per game — and technology that's hard to argue with — the tension would be ...