Heinrich Klaasen smashes hundred; Travis Head shines as Sunrisers Hyderabad post massive total against KKR in IPL clash.

SEATTLE -- There might not be another big league pitcher who would appreciate -- and utilize -- the automated ball-strike challenge system more than George Kirby, whose precise command and ...

SEATTLE — The current MLB strike zone has been in place since 1996. The zone itself has remained unchanged for a generation, but there have been adjustments to rules and protocols that have ...

The landscape of Major League Baseball is undergoing a significant transformation as the league introduces a revised approach to the strike zone, a change that has sparked ... borderline pitch could ...

We’ve reached the point in the MLB season where certain stats begin to stabilize. When stats stabilize, that doesn’t mean they will remain there for the rest of the season, but it does mean that they ...

Where umpires used to have a “buffer zone” around the strike zone that ... Major league teams played with the ABS (automatic ball-strike system) challenge system this spring, given the chance ...

But now, a month into the season, its impact on balls and strikes has players asking questions about what they believe is a tightened strike zone — and searching for ways to adjust to a new ...

Where umpires used to have a “buffer zone” around the strike zone that gave them a couple of inches to work with in the way they were graded, that has now shrunk significantly. Though the zone ...

According to The Athletic, MLB changed how its home plate umpires are evaluated on their calls of balls and strikes. MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been ...

A quick recap: Until this season, umpires were given a passing grade on ball-and-strike calls within 2 inches of the actual zone, and now that buffer zone has shrunk to three-quarters of an inch ...

Winning baseball starts with controlling the strike zone, and the Angels don't do it on either side of the ball. Even the great Mike Trout has fallen victim to the team's plate indiscipline.

The National Weather Service (NWS) in Tulsa, Oklahoma, said hailstones could reach the size of tennis balls and winds could reach 70 miles per hour. Severe weather has been threatening swaths of ...