Baseball is the game most rooted in its old traditions, which is why its success rate at making monumental rule changes has been so impressive. No purist wanted each league to add a wild-card team but ...

On Sunday on a national TV broadcast from Atlanta, Philadelphia base-runner Alec Bohm slid in the general vicinity of home in the ninth inning with what proved to be the deciding run of a 7-6 Braves ...

The game of baseball has been around for about 160 years and since the first pitch, the first bobble, the first bad call, they’ve been trying — unsuccessfully — to perfect the imperfect. Baseball ...

Rookie skipper Craig Stammen lived through his first real MLB meltdown, getting ejected after a controversial replay flipped ...

Not knowing how - or simply displaying an unwillingness - to utilize technology when it's available is dimwitted. Bud Selig, your sport is being dimwitted about how it utilizes instant replay. Without ...

Three nights after Carlos Delgado's home was incorrectly called a foul ball by the umpire crew, another missed call occurred last night at Yankee Stadium. Yankees' third baseman Alex Rodriguez hit a ...

This wasn't Little League, so Dewayne Wise wasn't about to fess up. Sportsmanship only goes so far when you're wearing pinstripes and playing in Yankee Stadium. Wise sold the third base umpire just by ...

“It’s like trying to eat a gallon of ice cream instead of just a pint.” Joe Torre said this back in 1999, when the Subway Series expanded from three games to six. Now, as baseball’s chief baseball ...

ST. LOUIS, MO - SEPTEMBER 29: Matt Carpenter #13 of the St. Louis Cardinals scores the game-winning run against the Cincinnati Reds in the ninth inning at Busch Stadium on September 29, 2016 in St.

Major League Baseball on Thursday unveiled a long overdue plan to greatly expand the use of instant replay starting in 2014. Under the proposed policy basically every play except calls on balls and ...