FORT PIERCE, Fla. — A program that started 18 years ago in Fort Pierce has found its home. The Umpire Placement Course is a professional umpire school that allows attendees to compete for ...

The Chautauqua County Softball Umpires Association announces the formation of a rules instruction class for anyone interested in umpiring high school softball games. Classes will be held at Cassadaga ...

FORT PIERCE, Florida (WPTV) — A program that started 18 years ago in Fort Pierce has found its home. The Umpire Placement Course is a professional umpire school that allows attendees to compete ...

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) San Francisco Giants clubhouse attendant Riley Halpin inspects baseball pants for stains and pine tar in the laundry room during baseball spring training at the team’s ...

Home Plate Umpire Brian Walsh uses an earpiece to hear the electronic notification as to weather a pitch was a ball or a strike by the ABS system during a AAA minor league baseball game.

Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

system could be used for the regular season by 2026 The Major League Baseball (MLB) robot umpires won’t be rolled out for every game this spring, but they will be in play for Friday’s matchup ...

Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is an advocate of the Automated Ball-Strike System, which potentially as early as 2026 could be used to aid MLB home plate umpires, but not replace them.

NEW YORK — Paul Clemons, Emil Jiménez and Alex MacKay were hired Friday as fulltime major league umpires and Major League Baseball said Dan Merzel and Nate Tomlinson had been added to the staff ...

Major League Baseball is experimenting with robot umpires, reintroducing a device called an Automated Ball-Strike System in spring training games. Please, then, no more booing. How could a fan curse a ...