Remember all those time Mike Scioscia blocked the plate when he was with the Dodgers?

The name “baseball” tells us which objects are important to it. There’s the ball, and there are the bases. Pretty straightforward. Nowadays the ball gets most of the attention. There’s so ...

Runners trying to reach home plate — and the catchers who often try to block them — will have to follow new rules that are meant to cut the risk of injuries from collisions in the 2014 season.

After all the angst, all the confusion, all the outrage over the new rule designed to make collisions at home plate extinct, baseball officials responded Tuesday with one little change. “If a ...

Home Run: A play in which the batter makes it safely around all bases and back to home plate without stopping. Home Team: The team on whose field the game is played.

MLB decided not to ban home-plate collisions%2C only to outlaw the ones deemed %27egregious' The rule is on an experimental basis for the 2014 season TAMPA -- Major League Baseball implemented an ...

It’s 1, 2, 3 strikes you’re out and for one umpire, the quicker you get to go home. Two shocking strike call concluded a college baseball game between New Orleans and Mississippi Valley State ...

The main reason for this disparity between softball and baseball is the size distance of the field. In softball, the distance from the mound to home plate is 43 feet and the distance from home ...

As Olson got closer to home, a second ball was thrown from the upper stands at Oracle Park and landed on the field near home plate. This happened just as Giants' Mike Yastrzemski made a throw to ...