Major League Baseball umpires will be enforcing obstruction rules more this year -- they will have to determine if a fielder is getting in the way of a runner's path to the base. "Existing Rule 6. ...

And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the personality of a junkyard dog has always been a unique character in the ...

Among the various rules that distinguish baseball from rounders is the role of the umpire. In baseball, the home-plate umpire calls every pitch in the game—ball or strike. In other sports ...

Professional umpires are professionally inconspicuous, and women in baseball always have known the key to a life in baseball is the ability to blend. The second thing to know about Jen Pawol ...

Let's get to it. Yes, yes, I'm aware of your strong (and incorrect) opinion: Major League Baseball umpires are atrocious! After all, I saw that admittedly hilarious meme that has "Angel Hernandez ...

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball will test robot umpires as part of a challenge system during spring training at 13 ballparks hosting 19 teams, which could lead to regular-season use in 2026.

"It changes your whole day. You sleep better," he said. There's been enormous pressure on baseball to improve the accuracy of umpires. Missed calls can lead to lost tempers and ejections.

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.