{"id":66959,"date":"2025-07-16T10:26:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66959\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T10:26:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T10:26:12","slug":"cal-raleigh-successful-4-of-5-challenges-reverse-calls-in-first-all-star-use-of-robot-umpire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/66959\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Raleigh successful, 4 of 5 challenges reverse calls in first All-Star use of robot umpire"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Cal Raleigh was just as successful with the first robot umpire All-Star challenge as he was in the Home Run Derby.<\/a><\/p>\n

Seattle\u2019s catcher signaled for an appeal to the Automated Ball-Strike System in the first inning of the National League\u2019s win Tuesday night<\/a>, getting a strikeout for Detroit\u2019s Tarik Subal on San Diego\u2019s Manny Machado.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou take \u2018em any way you can get \u2019em, boys,\u201d Skubal said on the mound.<\/p>\n

Four of five challenges of plate umpire Dan Iassogna\u2019s calls were successful in the first All-Star use of the ABS system, which could make its regular-season debut next year.<\/p>\n

Athletics rookie Jacob Wilson won as the first batter to call for a challenge, reversing a 1-0 fastball from Washington\u2019s MacKenzie Gore in the fifth inning that had been called a strike.<\/p>\n

Miami\u2019s Kyle Stowers lost when ABS upheld a full-count Andr\u00e9s Mu\u00f1oz fastball at the bottom of the zone for an inning-ending strikeout in the eighth.<\/p>\n

Mets closer Edwin D\u00edaz earned a three-pitch strikeout against Randy Arozarena to end the top of the ninth on a pitch Iassogna thought was outside.<\/p>\n

Blue Jays catcher Alejandro Kirk used ABS to get a first-pitch strike on a 100.1 mph Aroldis Chapman offering to Brendan Donovan with two outs in the bottom half.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fans enjoy it. I thought the players had fun with it,\u201d NL manager Dave Roberts of the Los Angeles Dodgers said. \u201cThere\u2019s a strategy to it, if it does get to us during the season. But I like it. I think it\u2019s good for the game.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skubal had given up Ketel Marte\u2019s two-run double and retired the Dodgers\u2019 Freddie Freeman on a groundout for his first out when he got ahead of Machado 0-2 in the count. Skubal threw a 89.5 mph changeup, and Iassogna yelled\u201d \u201cBall down!\u201d<\/p>\n

Raleigh tapped his helmet just before Skubal tipped his cap, triggering a review by the computer umpire that was tested in spring training this year and could be adopted for regular-season use in 2026.<\/p>\n

\u201cObviously, a strike like that it was, so I called for it and it helped us out,\u201d Raleigh said.<\/p>\n

An animation of the computer analysis was shown on the Truist Park scoreboard and the broadcast. Roberts laughed in the dugout after the challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI knew it was a strike,\u201d Machado said.<\/p>\n

Skubal doesn\u2019t intend to use challenges during regular-season games if the ABS is put in place. He says he\u2019ll rely on his catchers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was joking around that I was going to burn two of them on the first balls just so that way we didn\u2019t have them the rest of the game,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m just going to assume that it\u2019s going to happen next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before the game, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred indicated the sport\u2019s 11-man competition committee will consider the system for next season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the ability to correct a bad call in a high-leverage situation without interfering with the time of game because it\u2019s so fast is something we ought to continue to pursue,\u201d Manfred said.<\/p>\n

ABS decisions may have an error of margin up to a half-inch.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur guys do have a concern with that half inch, what that might otherwise lead to particularly as it relates to the number of challenges you may have, whether you keep those challenges during the course of the game,\u201d union head Tony Clark told the Baseball Writers Association of America. \u201cDoes there need to be some type of buffer zone consideration? Or do we want to find ourselves in a world where it\u2019s the most egregious misses that we want focus in on?\u201d<\/p>\n

Manfred sounded less concerned.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t believe that technology supports the notion that you need a buffer zone,\u201d he said. \u201cTo get into the idea that there\u2019s something that is not a strike that you\u2019re going to call a strike in a review system, I don\u2019t know why I would want to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n

MLB sets the top of the automated strike zone at 53.5% of a batter\u2019s height and the bottom at 27%, basing the decision on the midpoint of the plate, 8 1\/2 inches from the front and 8 1\/2 inches from the back. That contrasts with the rule book zone called by umpires, which says the zone is a cube.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe haven\u2019t even started talking about the strike zone itself, how that\u2019s going to necessarily be measured, and whether or not there are tweaks that need to be made there, too,\u201d Clark said. \u201cSo there\u2019s a lot of discussion that still needs to be had, despite the fact that it seems more inevitable than not.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manfred has tested ABS in the minor leagues since 2019, using it for all pitches and then switching to a challenge system. Each team gets two challenges and a successful challenge is retained. Only catchers, batters and pitchers can call for a challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhere we are on ABS has been fundamentally influenced by player input,\u201d he maintained. \u201cIf you had two years ago said to me: What do the owners want to do? I think they would have called every pitch with ABS as soon as possible. That\u2019s because there is a fundamental, very fundamental interest in getting it right, right? We owe it to our fans to try to get it right because the players as I talked to them over a couple of years really, expressed a very strong interest or preference for the challenge system that we decided to test.\u201d<\/p>\n

Skubal wondered is all contingencies had been planned for.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf power goes out and we don\u2019t have ABS \u2014 sometimes we don\u2019t have Hawk-Eye data or Trackman data. So what\u2019s going to happen then?\u201d he said. \u201cAre we going to expect umpires to call balls and strikes when it\u2019s an ABS zone?\u201d<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

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