Luis Arraez has finished each of the last three seasons with the highest batting average in the league on three different teams. The San Diego Padres' first bas ...

By the letter of the law, Max Meyer’s full-count pitch to Brett Baty in the fifth inning Wednesday probably didn’t clip the ...

Baseball is often a game of inches, determined by the thinnest of margins. The post Rays Pay the Price Against Angels as ...

Veteran umpire Laz Diaz threw Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Merrill Kelly and manager Torey Lovullo out of Tuesday’s 4-3 ...

The Phillies are 7-2 going into their series in Atlanta, and they’ve looked good doing it. At the top of the list of ...

After falling 4-2 at Kansas City Monday night, the Twins are now 3-7 to start 2025. I should have a more witty way to get ...

MLB commissioner Rob Manfred lauded "torpedo" bats as the future of America's pastime, calling them "absolutely good for ...

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

NEW YORK — Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires ... zone were ruled balls and 6.3% of called pitches outside of the strike zone were ruled ...

A memo from MLB regarding ... So, for now, umpires, batters, and the occasional irate manager can still meet at home plate to snarl over balls and strike calls.

borderline strike calls from umpires, the players prevailed – but just barely. Major League Baseball’s tryout of ... a few less calls per game (3.9 to 4.1) and were a little less successful ...