What makes the Twins baseball's most aggressive ABS team? 'We don't have a cheat code'

MINNEAPOLIS — Josh Bell challenged a called strike in the first inning Saturday night and lost a battle with baseball’s newest robot, the Automated Ball-Strike challenge system. Two innings later, Luke Keaschall also unsuccessfully challenged a call.The two early misses in a 7-1 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Saturday meant the Minnesota Twins were out of challenges with six-plus innings to play, a position they’ve rarely found themselves in early in the season. Even though Keaschall would have benefited from having a challenge later in the same at-bat when a ball was incorrectly called a strike in a 3-2 count, the Twins’ coaching staff was OK with his process.Advertisement