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 ...

Persistent rain compelled the umpires to call stumps at lunch on the second day of the CSA 4-Day Series match between the DP ...

The Milwaukee Brewers started off the season with a loss after a valiant comeback attempt in the 9th inning fell short ...

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) ...

"I remember as a 20-year-old in 1996, I had an opening day game-winning hit walk-off at the Kingdome [in Seattle]," Rodriguez ...

This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...

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.

Ishan Kishan took a hilarious dig at Pakistan wicketkeeper-batter Mohammad Rizwan. In a conversation with umpire Anil ...