There’s a little extra spark when the Boston Red Sox and Texas Rangers play one another, sometimes leading to arguments with ...

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...

In the preseason, Arkansas baseball coach Dave Van Horn said an emphasis on small ball principles and playing downhill would ...

Conroy is entering his third year as a crew chief and has been a Major League umpire for 13 1/2 seasons. He had home plate ...

The Pittsburgh Pirates blew their Opening Day game vs. the Miami Marlins, but a clear missed call cost them dearly. Pirates right-handed relief pit ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...

The New York Yankees’ Jazz Chisholm Jr. showed how to confidently use the still-in-trial Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) ...

The challenge system will not be used in MLB games this season, but there is a good chance it will be implemented in 2026.

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly better success rate than pitchers.

Wonder how the new Automated Ball-Strike System fared during Spring Training? Well, wonder no more. According to data ...