The ball which Shohei Ohtani made baseball history with by becoming the inaugural member of the 50-50 club sold for almost $4.4 million at auction on Wednesday, despite its ownership being the subject ...

The next big story in Major League Baseball is thousands of miles from any big-league team. In Turrialba, Costa Rica, a town perhaps best known for its volcanic eruptions, is the Rawlings factory — ...

Major League Baseball finds itself playing defense over inconsistencies with the baseball used in games, with an independent study finding that two different balls were used during the 2021 season. As ...

Something’s up with the baseball. Again. Deep flies aren’t flying as far this year in Major League Baseball, and the league office is acknowledging as much. A review by The Athletic of MLB’s publicly ...

There's beauty in baseball's unpredictability, but advanced data shows us just how unpredictable the actual baseball can be. Changes in the baseball's composition are fairly well documented through ...

Chicago Cubs starter Cody Poteet knew exactly what pitch he wanted to uncork to Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Max Muncy: a fastball down and away. But as the ball left his hand — in the first inning of ...

A walk is the colloquial term for a base on balls in baseball scoring. Both mean the same, both serve the same purpose. Both are non-Sabermetric statistics. A base on balls, or walk, happens when a ...