Shrinking the zone was occasionally mentioned as a Hail Mary solution while the offense went kaput throughout the 2010s and ...

An adjustment in how umpires are graded has impacted ball-strike calls during the season’s first month, leaving players to ...

Late Monday at Yankee Stadium, revenge was a dish best served with a pair of well-struck line drives. In the top of the ...

Yorkville’s Frankie Pavlik puts it all together with the bat and on the mound Monday in a wild 10-8 over Oswego.

In a statement to The Athletic's Jayson Stark, Ken Rosenthal and Eno Sarris, an MLB official explained the zone hasn't ...

The Athletic reported on Friday the change has to do with how the umpires are graded, causing the zone to be called ...

The first month of the 2025 MLB regular season is in the books and things are beginning to look normal, for lack of a better ...

MLB pitchers including, Logan Webb, and Matt Strahm, are frustrated with the league's new, tighter strike zone in 2025.

Now, however, that buffer zone has shrunk, from 2 inches on all sides to just three-quarters of an inch on all sides, inside and outside the strike zone, according to league sources briefed on the ...

MLB’s change? Shrinking the strike zone. Home-plate umpires have long been judged with a two-inch “buffer zone,” which essentially gave them that much leeway when it came to being judged on ...

The early MLB season is often ripe for obscure storylines brought on by tiny nuances to the game. In a season with 162 games, hundreds of pitches, and plenty of tedium, the smallest things wind up ...