It was the second-to-last weekend of the regular season, a pivotal moment for baseball’s pennant races. Pitching was scrutinized. Analysis was deep. “His stuff was really good,” Chicago Cubs manager ...
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In a week-and-a-half of semi-regular on-field pitcher inspections, the vast majority have been unremarkable. MLB’s controversial mid-season crackdown on the use of foreign substances has, as far as we ...
The four Cubs pitchers were checked one by one as they left the mound Thursday night, and all passed inspection. Getting a grip on the baseball didn’t seem to be an issue at Dodger Stadium, where the ...
Actually, it’s not even a question. Ask any pitcher in any league, and -- if they’re being honest -- they’ll tell you it’s rarer to see a guy throwing a “naked” ball, i.e., one without any type of ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was around this time last year that foreign substances, the stuff pitchers use to make baseballs spin enough to achieve celestial orbit, took center stage ...
When the NC State baseball team was sent home from Omaha a win away from the Championship series due to COVID-19, Lauren Brownlow thought it was time to update her NC State Stuff podcast series. Will ...
Well, baseball’s latest scandal went live in the New York Times today — it really is quite amazing how often this wonderful sport will publicly embarrass itself with some dumb scandal. It might be ...
Major League Baseball’s memo to pitchers Tuesday said this: Stop using sticky substances to better grip the baseball, because it’s leading to pitches that spin like jet engines, and not even Bugs ...
It’s Saturday morning, in case you lost track. And in simpler times, in a long-ago era when days had definition, Saturday morning also meant kids enjoyed generally free reign over the television, ...
Baseball is a game of cheaters (or players pushing the edge). It has always been so. The very essence of the game as we know it — a titanic battle between a pitcher and hitter — comes from pitchers ...