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

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

Was the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system novel? Yes, though maybe not to Max Scherzer. Effective? According to the data, ...

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Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

Athletics outfielder Seth Brown made a strange bit of MLB history in Friday's win over the Seattle Mariners -- thanks to an ...

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 ...

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Manager Stephen Vogt says he wants Gabriel Arias to stay aggressive after he ran into a double play Monday night.

The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.

The recently retired umpire Jim Reynolds, now MLB’s umpire supervisor, tells a story that illustrates what a hall of mirrors ball-and-strike calling has become: “I had one conversation with a ...