Baseball Game Ends in Very Modern Way

Baseball's tech experiment produced a first-of-its-kind finish in Baltimore on Wednesday. The Orioles' 8-3 win over the Texas Rangers came when catcher Samuel Basallo used the league's new automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system on a called ball with two outs in the ninth, reports the Athletic. The review showed Albert Suarez's pitch grazed the top outside corner of the strike zone, turning it into strike three and deciding the game on what amounted to a walk-off challenge. It's the first time that ABS has ended a game, notes MLB.com. Watch the moment here.

"I thought, 'Why not use it?'" Basallo said after the game. "Better to use it and see what happens." Earlier, in Cincinnati, the same technology briefly prolonged the Reds' loss to the Pirates: Tyler Stephenson successfully challenged a called third strike in the ninth, only to strike out again a few pitches later as Pittsburgh finished its own 8-3 victory.