Law 21: Video Review

Each manager has one challenge per game, not counting extra innings, where each team gets one more.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B1.1 · recall

An overturned call lets the manager keep his challenge; an upheld call costs it.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B1.3 · recall

The manager has ten seconds after the call and the end of the play to signal a hold with his hand.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.1.1 · recall

Ten seconds to signal a hold, twenty more to start the challenge, then two minutes for the review official.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.1.2 · recall

The decision is due within two minutes; placing runners after an overturned call may take longer.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.2.3 · recall

An untimely challenge is not reviewed and the call stands, but the team is not charged with a challenge.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.2.4 · applied

Only the manager may ask for a review, or the coach who takes on his duties if he cannot go on.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.2.1 · applied

The review official's decision is final; anyone on the team who argues a reviewed call is automatically ejected.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.1.8 · recall

Hold, challenge at home plate, headsets at the review area, then the crew chief's signal of the result.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.1 · recall

The official in the review booth evaluates the call and makes the final decision, which is relayed to the crew chief.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.1.6 · applied

Any catch or no-catch play attempted by an outfielder may be challenged.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B2.2 · applied

Catch or no-catch plays in the infield are not reviewable; the infield limit is the umpire's judgement.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B2.2 · applied

Fair or foul is reviewable only where the ball lands at or beyond the base umpire; a foul in front of him is not.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B2.3 · applied

Any force play at any base is reviewable.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B2.4 · recall

Whether the pitch was in the strike zone and whether the batter tried to avoid it are not reviewable.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.11 · applied

Potential home runs may be reviewed by the crew chief at any time; other calls by his initiative come late in the game.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.2.2 · recall

A runner possibly being pushed off a base is a judgement that video review does not touch.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.13 · recall

Where the rules need an appeal, as for a missed base, review can start only after the umpires rule on it.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B2.1 · recall

If the hit by pitch comes on a check swing, the swing must be appealed before a review is asked for.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B2.5 · recall

Any fly ball in foul territory is reviewable, even one caught by an infielder.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B2.2 · applied

The call on the field stands unless the evidence lets him conclude definitively that it was wrong.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.7 · recall

Any doubt about placing runners is resolved in favour of the last base legally touched at the time of the call.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.9.2 · applied

More than one base is given only when it is obvious the runner would have got there, or the rules require it.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.9.2 · recall

Unless the defence appealed the missed plate before the booth was contacted, the runner is ruled safe and scores.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.10 · applied

The review official may only rule on the calls challenged or accepted by the crew chief, not on other things he sees.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.5 · applied

Decisions made because of a call later overturned are nullified unless the manager reaffirms them.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.4 · applied

A later call made moot by the earlier ruling is not reviewed, and that challenge is not charged.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.3.2 · applied

Challenged calls are reviewed in the order they happened, and a later one is skipped if the first ruling makes it moot.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.3.2 · recall

If a challenged call is not eligible, the crew chief may consult the booth, and the team is not charged a challenge.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.2.5 · recall

The review official reverses the call and places the runner at second, ignoring what he did after the wrong out call.

Source: WBSC ORB 2025-2026, Appendix 2, B3.9.4 · applied