Robo umps in MLB? Inside baseball's latest ABS experiment - ESPN
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The pitch looked perfect. Thigh-high, 95 mph, right on the outside corner. Liam Hendriks was ready to celebrate a strikeout, and Roberto Alvarez was prepared to head back to the dugout, and then each was greeted with silence instead of a strike three call. Amid the quiet, one fan let his feelings be known. «Come on, blue, that's a strike,» he yelled at home-plate umpire Cody Clark. And it was an eminently reasonable complaint, if not for one important fact.


