MLB is experimenting with an Automated Ball-Strike challenge system in roughly half of the games this spring training, and there have already been a few challenges that aged rather poorly, likely making the player who challenged the call wish they could go back in time and undo the decision.
Such a moment occurred once again on Tuesday during Grapefruit League action between the Toronto Blue Jays and St. Louis Cardinals. In the top of the second inning with the count at 1–0, Blue Jays starter Max Scherzer delivered a curveball low in the zone to Cardinals designated hitter JJ Wetherholt. Toronto catcher Alejandro Kirk attempted to frame the pitch into the zone so as to entice home-plate umpire Roberto Ortiz to call it a strike, but Ortiz was not fooled.
