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 ...

Usually 4-6m is considered the good length for spinners, but as pitches have become truer and hitting quality has improved, 6-7m has become the go-to zone for ... forget the bowling style. Someone to ...

Trump has perplexed officials in Tokyo with a reference to a Japanese “bowling-ball” test — dropping a bowling ball on to a car and failing any vehicle if its bonnet dents under the impact.

The secret to scoring the perfect strike in a round of ... They based their simulations on the bowling style of a hypothetical “average” bowler, releasing the ball at 17.9 mph at a 45-degree ...

Bowling’s elusive perfect strike may no longer be a matter of intuition ... rigid bodies—can be used to simulate a bowling ball’s trajectory with exceptional precision.

Employing a system of six differential equations derived from Euler's equations for a rotating rigid body, their model creates a plot that shows the best conditions for a strike. "The simulation ...

US President Donald Trump delivers a speech as he signs two executive orders that will lead to reciprocal tariffs against other countries that charge tariffs on US goods, in the Rose Garden of the ...