WATCH: Cubs pitcher Cody Poteet wins first automated ball-strike challenge of 2025 spring training

Thursday was the first Chief League baseball game of the 2025 season. To be convinced, it was an exhibition of spring educational diversity between Chicago’s cube and champion Los Angeles Dodger, but it is still real baseball. It is noteworthy that this game first brought us for the first time to use the automatic ball hit (ABS) system MLB Game Here is how it played after the court of Cody Potter, a ball called Max Muni was called a ball.

As you probably gathered, Poyet appealed the ball by clicking the ball. Review of the field really threw it from a bullet-called strike, which means that POLET appeal was successful.

ABS has been tested for years in various rungs of minor leagues, and this spring tests it in different places of Grapefruit and Cactus League. What you see above is not a full ABS system in which each playing field is judged with a ball or hit the arm camera. Instead, the pitcher, a hunter or crush is free that they think they think it’s wrong to sound by a human plate. At that moment, the system’s automated rules on the field, and the appeal is either successful or unsuccessful. According to the appeal system, each team will be given a limited number of wrong challenges for each game. This approach is one of the middle ground, between the traditional method of giving the final ABS system and every playing field.

If the ABS system accepts this spring, there is a real opportunity that can be used during the regular season of the 2026 seasons in the 2026 Season. Of course, it is pouring in that direction, but the exact schedule is uncertain at this loop.

Speaking about all this, RJ Anderson recently dived deeply into the ABS system, which is part of this spring and sometime.