Major League Baseball is introducing an Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) robot program in spring training, allowing teams the ...

Major League Baseball players like to believe that they could call a game better than the umpire standing behind home plate. Now they’re finally getting a chance to prove it.

Major League Baseball announced Monday it fired an umpire for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games. MLB said umpire Pat Hoberg was also fired for ...

A prominent Major League Baseball umpire has been officially fired by the league for gambling. Pat Hoberg, a 38-year-old umpire who called a "perfect" game - by umpire standards, a.k.a not getting ...

An MLB umpire has been fired for sharing betting accounts with a friend who wagered on baseball. The league announced Monday that a decision to terminate umpire Pat Hoberg’s employment was ...

Commissioner Rob Manfred upheld a ruling the dismissal of umpire Pat Hoberg for violating MLB's ... [+] betting rules. (AP Foto/Terrance Williams) Pat Hoberg once pitched a perfect game.

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.

NEW YORK — Umpire Pat Hoberg was fired by Major League Baseball on Monday for sharing his legal sports gambling accounts with a friend who bet on baseball games and for intentionally deleting ...

Major League Baseball has fired umpire Pat Hoberg after he shared sports betting accounts with a professional poker player who bet on baseball. In a news release issued Monday, the league said it ...

Major League Baseball has fired umpire Pat Hoberg for his association with a known gambler who bet on baseball, Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Monday. Hoberg, 38, considered one of baseball ...

Major League Baseball has terminated umpire Pat Hoberg for violating the league's gambling policy. Hoberg was disciplined by the league last summer and appealed the decision. In the announcement ...