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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

MESA, ARIZONA - FEBRUARY 20: A general view of a video board displaying the outcome an automated balls and strikes prompt or ABS System during a spring training game between the Chicago Cubs and the ...

Major League Baseball announced that starting in 2026, the Automated Ball-Strike System (ABS) will be implemented at the major league level. The system is pretty simple. Each team will receive two ...

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 ...

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 ...

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