NEW YORK (AP) — Big league teams improved their success in video reviews for the third straight year led by the Houston Astros, who were successful in 71.9% of their challenges.
Houston won 23 of 32 challenges, Major League Baseball said.
Milwaukee was next at 69.2%, followed by Philadelphia (66.7%), Arizona (66%) and Kansas City (65.6%).
Texas and Baltimore had the lowest success rate at 40.4%.
Boston dropped to 17th at 56% after leading at 67.9% in 2024. The Red Sox made the fewest challenges with 25.
The Athletics made the most challenges with 59 and were successful on 44.1%, ahead of only the Rangers, Orioles and Tampa Bay (40.9%). The Cubs were second in challenges with 55 and succeeded on 50.9%.
The overall success rate of 54.8% was up from 53.7% in 2024 and 48.5% in 2023.
There were 1,197 team challenges, down from 1,230 in 2024 and 1,288 in 2023. Among the challenges this year, 207 calls were confirmed (17.3%) and 334 were allowed to stand (27.9%), where there is not clear and convincing evidence to overturn it.
In addition to team challenges, there were 149 crew chief reviews that led to 38 overturned calls (25.5%). The crew chief figure included three for rules checks and three for record keeping, used for reviewing ball-strike counts, outs in an inning and score of the game.
After initially starting video review in August 2008 for home run calls, MLB .
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