offering the reminder that baseball remains alone among the four major men’s team sports that always should be consumed with a gentle humor. Go to the ballpark, see a couple of bloopers in the field, ...

offering the reminder that baseball remains alone among the four major men’s team sports that always should be consumed with a gentle humor. Go to the ballpark, see a couple of bloopers in the ...

There’s no exact science for a classic baseball blooper. From defensive miscues to dugout shenanigans to oddities that simply can't be categorized, bloopers can happen at any time and at any place on ...

The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires. A situation is a flash of irritation, a simmering temper, a plea for ...

And as long as baseball has been a constant, so too has the umpire. The looming figure in blue with a booming voice and the personality of a junkyard dog has always been a unique character in the ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game, making the men in blue barely noticeable. Bruce Lazaruk is regarded one of those types of umpires. However, while he might not be seen ...

While the use of the ABS challenge system during spring training seemed to go smoothly, it does not have a unanimously positive rating among MLB players ... to challenge an umpire's call with ...

If you paid attention to spring training at any point in the past five weeks, you may have noticed something a little different. No, it wasn’t this year’s edition of the gaudy hats, though ...