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 ...

Definition. The official strike zone is the area over home plate from the midpoint between a batter's shoulders and the top of the uniform pants -- when the batter is ...

Editor’s note: A previous version of this article and an accompanying chart misstated the dimensions of the “buffer zone” used to evaluate umpires before this year. That buffer zone should have been ...

Only the batter, pitcher or catcher can challenge an umpire’s ball or strike call with the ABS system. (GeekWire Photo / Kurt Schlosser) Human umpires will remain behind the plate calling balls and ...

After years of testing in the minor leagues and spring training, baseball’s new Automated Ball-Strike challenge system has finally arrived in the majors. For the first time, big league players have ...

Historically, there have likely been few jobs in the sports world more stress inducing and challenging than that of a home plate umpire in Major League Baseball. Here is a man—and hopefully with ...

Baseball has experienced many dramatic moments throughout its long history, but few altered the sport’s trajectory like the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike. When players walked out on August 12, ...

Racing the world's fastest quadruped robot in the 100m sprint ...