Secondary Vocational School" came to Taiwan to experience the new challenge system for the first time. Korean professional hitters were not able to adapt.
Quick Look
- For the first time, the Taoyuan Asian Professional Baseball Exchange Tournament has introduced the Automatic Ball Judgment Challenge System (ABS), with each team having 2 challenges.
- Rakuten's Lin Zhenghua became the first player to successfully challenge, converting a strikeout into a ball.
- Training Heroes head coach Xue Zhongzhen believes that hitters still need to adapt to the challenge system.
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Why It Matters
The Taoyuan Asian Professional Baseball Exchange Tournament has introduced the automatic ball judgment challenge system (ABS) this year, and each team has the right to challenge twice.
Lin Zhenghua proposed the automatic ball judgment challenge (ABS).
[Reporter Gong Naijie/Taoyuan Report] This year’s Taoyuan Asian Professional Baseball Exchange Tournament introduced the automatic ball judgment challenge system (ABS). Each team has the right to challenge twice. Lin Zhenghua became the first player to challenge the strike zone in the 7th inning. A high ball was changed from a strikeout by the referee to a ball. In this regard, head coach Zeng Haoju said it was very interesting, "With machines to assist in challenging key decisions, the fairness of the game will be improved even more."
The Korean professional team has adopted the ABS system in the first army since 2024. The quality of each ball is directly determined by the system, and the result is communicated to the head referee. Xue Zhongzhen, the head coach of the training hero team, came to Taiwan today for the first time to experience the ABS challenge system with a limit of 2 times for a single team. He bluntly said that even if he wanted to keep using it, there was nothing he could do. "Our hitters were a little ill-adapted to this challenge system and failed to seize some opportunities."
Chung Yu-cheng came on to bat in the 4th inning, and Eagles pitcher Ding Xuanyu threw the first strike. Catcher Jin Gansong touched his head. Chief umpire Zeng Junwei also stepped away from home plate. The Taoyuan big screen showed a TV replay to assist in the decision. The results showed that the first pitch was indeed a bad ball below the strike zone, completing the first ABS challenge at Taoyuan Stadium. In the 5th inning, Zhang Zhaohong hit a low-angle bad ball with 2 good and 0 bad. The training hero challenged again, and finally turned the game into a good ball, and Zhang Zhaohong was struck out.
Lin Zhenghua proposed the automatic ball judgment challenge (ABS).
Training Hero Supervisor Xue Zhongzhen.
Open Questions
- Will ABS systems be fully and regularly adopted in the future?
