An adjustment in how umpires are graded has impacted ball-strike calls during the season’s first month, leaving players to ...

Pitchers across Major League Baseball find that the strike zone they’ve known for years no longer plays the same. This season, a behind-the-scenes tweak to how umpires are evaluated has ...

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 ...

Well, it turns out that all MLB needed to do was accidentally shrink the strike zone. Shrinking the zone was occasionally mentioned as a Hail Mary solution while the offense went kaput throughout ...

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 ...

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

Thursday night's softball game between the Highlands Bluebirds ... Highlands junior Morgan Pompilio had the idea of hosting a "Strike Out Cancer" game to honor her grandmother, Mary Jo Long ...

However, his zone contact rate has plummeted to 78%, and his swinging strike rate is up to 14.5%. When you also consider that his pull rate is down and his Strikezone Judgment score is so poor, it ...

Alexander delivered a 91-mph sinker square in the zone for the presumptive strike 3. However, Barber inexplicably did not ring up Jankowski, who was even ready to walk back to the dugout.