India, July 11 -- The Major League Baseball (MLB) will be using a new automated ball-strike challenge system for the upcoming All-Star Game in Atlanta, as confirmed by a source within the league to NBC News. This move is a possible precursor to using the system as a permanent part of major leagues in the upcoming year as well.

As part of testing, the system was used by all MLB teams during 60% of spring training games, as reported by NBC News. Each club was permitted two challenges per game to get balls and strikes reviewed by Hawk-Eye technology. This challenge, however, could only be issued by either the pitchers, catchers, or hitters. An animated replay of the pitch was then played on the scoreboard. Following this, the home umpire is...