An adjustment in how umpires are graded has impacted ball-strike calls during the season’s first month, leaving players to ...

The Washington-based Shepaug Valley High School softball team’s pitcher-catcher battery is an all-Newtown connection with ...

If you think your team’s pitchers have been getting less strike calls on pitches just off the plate, you might not be crazy.

Shrinking the zone was occasionally mentioned as a Hail Mary solution while the offense went kaput throughout the 2010s and ...

Former Atlanta Braves catcher Travis d'Arnaud did not mince words when asked about umpiring this season and how much it has ...

The Athletic reported on Friday the change has to do with how the umpires are graded, causing the zone to be called ...

The Kansas City Royals are facing a historic trend — completely outside of their control. Here’s why it shouldn’t last.

MLB shrank the strike zone without warning most players. Now pitchers are losing games, leverage, and trust in the league.

Chris Paddack said pitching coach Pete Maki had alerted the starters in mid-April that the zone had “shrunk a little bit ...

There are missed calls and incorrect calls in athletic events. It’s part of it. It’s human error. So be it. But sometimes it’s worth addressing those mistakes. I believe this is one of them. You have ...