Baseball is the greatest of games because it is the most democratic and is played at its basic core the same way it was one hundred and fifty years ago. You can't get a Jack Taylor of Grinnell in ...

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 ...

“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.

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 ...

Major League Baseball’s replay review did not exactly have the best start to the National League Division Series on Saturday. With two out in the bottom of the 3rd, New York Mets pitcher David ...

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 ...

Well, there's one way to get accountability for the umpires. And it's pretty damn simple. The umpires think they see something their way. The players and managers see it differently. They disagree.

Baseball’s installation of instant replay Thursday is about more than an ancient sport finally embracing the wonders of technology, It is also about one of the crudest sports finally embracing the ...

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 ...

Lincoln Saltdogs manager James Frisbie launched first base into the abyss after getting ejected, delivering a nearly ...

In sports as in life, technology improves, speeds up and simplifies. Except when it doesn’t. Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig, declaring that his view of instant replay has “evolved,” ...