Yankees Overturn Ump's Calls with ABS

0:00On March 31st, Monday night, the New York Yankees faced the Seattle Mariners, and home plate umpire Mike Estebrook had a tough time calling balls and strikes. The Yankees challenged five of his calls using the new automated ball strike system, and they nailed every single one, flipping the counts in there, favor. Take one at bat with Jose Caballero, where Estebrook rang him up on an outside pitch, making it one ball and one strike. Each overturned it to two balls and no strikes. Later in that same inning, on a three-two count, another low pitch got called a strike for the out, but ABS said ball, sending Caballero to first. By the fourth inning, tensions rose when Estebrook punched out Giancarlo Stanton on a one-two pitch. Challenge proved it low, and Stanton ripped a single next time up. Yankees' skipper Aaron Boone yelled from the dugout, and Estebrook fired back, telling him not another word. The ump's pride takes a hit, getting corrected like that in public, especially with the high

1:01stakes of major league games. But players and fans care more about right calls than bruised egos. Mariners pulled out a two-to-one win in the bottom of the ninth on Cal Raleigh's RBI single, improving to three wins and two losses. As ABS rolls out league-wide, umpires will adjust baseballs all about nailing those close calls now. That's the story for today, Seattle Mariners News Today, driven by AI. I'm Corey with the story.