Chicago Cubs starter Cody Poteet knew exactly what pitch he wanted to uncork to Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy: a fastball down and away. But as the ball left his hand — in the first inning of ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Baseball’s technological revolution continues as Major League Baseball officially announced that robot umpires – or more precisely, the automated ball-strike (ABS) challenge system – ...

Wheeler is MLB’s poster child for baffling hitters with a varying array of pitches. / Kyle Ross-Imagn Images Every baseball game every night includes pitch sorcery like nothing we have seen before.

It wouldn’t be fair to describe the joint article from Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris about the “shrinking” MLB strike zone as a bombshell. It’s a fascinating and necessary story, but the ...

The strike zone is being enforced slightly differently this year, and it’s the smallest it’s ever been. But that doesn’t mean every pitcher is suffering equally from the tighter, perhaps more ...

Every baseball game every night includes pitch sorcery like nothing we have seen before. The average major league pitcher throws harder than ever (an average of 94.0 mph on two- and four-seam ...