A challenge system allowing appeals to a computer appears to be Major League Baseball's preference over a sole robot umpire. MLB is testing the Automated Ball-Strike System at Triple-A this year. The challenge system was used at T-Mobile Park for Saturday's All-Star Futures Game.
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Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred will consider increasing time on the pitch clock for the postseason but is reluctant to adjust an innovation the sport considers a great success. In the first season of the clock, the average time of a nine-inning game is 2 hours, 38 minutes, on track to be the fastest since 1984. "We’re going to continue to talk to the players," Manfred told the Baseball Writers' Association of America on Tuesday.