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

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

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

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

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

It wasn’t the first rule tweak in MLB history. The post How One MLB Change Has Affected Pitchers and Catchers This Season ...

"The clowns at ESPN, they always make me laugh." ...

Plus, despite wearing a catchers mask doesn't always protect ... If they're not careful, base umpires can also face some unintended dangers. Being hit by batted balls really isn't that common ...

Manager Aaron Boone of the New York Yankees argues with the umpires after Aaron Judge is called out looking during the eighth inning. Getty Images “I think everybody was kind of scratching their ...

We learned this week that Major League Baseball could soon follow the lead of the NFL in having its umpires wear microphones to explain ... And if you want to make sure your pitcher, catcher and ...

It was ruled foul on the field and called foul on first glance by the Yankees broadcast. But umpires initiated a review to take a look at another angle, and a shot down the line on the YES Network ...

"It's a home run." Boone got his money's worth after Judge was called out on strikes, giving the umpires an earful to earn his first ejection of the season. "It was a fair ball, but that's why you ...