{"id":788839,"date":"2026-08-26T11:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/788839\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T11:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T11:42:13","slug":"report-ncaa-will-allow-teams-to-use-automated-ball-strike-system-next-college-baseball-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/788839\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: NCAA will allow teams to use automated ball-strike system next college baseball season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BATON ROUGE \u2014 The NCAA will allow college baseball teams to use an automated ball-strike system in the 2027 season, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-sports\/story\/_\/id\/49725298\/ncaa-oks-automated-ball-strike-system-option-next-season\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ESPN<\/a> reported Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The ruling gives all Division I teams the option to use the ABS system in regular-season and postseason games, according to ESPN.<\/p>\n<p>The Southeastern Conference implemented a similar system in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/report-2026-sec-baseball-tournament-will-feature-experimental-abs-challenges\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">last season&#8217;s conference tournament<\/a>, which allowed pitchers, catchers and batters to challenge an umpire&#8217;s call at the plate and defer it to ABS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BATON ROUGE \u2014 The NCAA will allow college baseball teams to use an automated ball-strike system in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[96818,96817,5,648,96816,96819,96824,1694,2341,96821,96822,96820,96823],"class_list":["post-788839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-abssystem","tag-automatedball-strikesystem","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-collegebaseball","tag-divisionibaseball","tag-espn-sportsnews","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-ncaabaseballrules","tag-robotumps","tag-secbaseball","tag-umpirechallenges"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117161632969517940","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}