Early on this spring training, Shohei Ohtani told Dodgers coaches he wanted to take 50 at-bats before the start of the regular season. To reach the mark before the team’s opening day series in South ...

"That machine is nice." Trajekt -- essentially a pitching robot that can play the video of any pitcher's windup, then spit out all of his pitches from the appropriate arm angle based on the reams of ...

For the past few weeks, approximately 15 minutes before the first pitch at Chase Field, Eugenio Suarez could be found in a batting cage, taking at-bats against the other team's starting pitcher. Or, ...

NEW YORK — New York Yankees left fielder Alex Verdugo timed it just right. The 94 mph sinker from Kansas City Royals starting pitcher Michael Wacha was high and inside, but Verdugo fought it off to ...

TAMPA, Fla. – Nestor Cortes got behind the plate in a batting cage and watched an 8-foot-high, 1,200-pound robot spit out fastballs, cutters and sweepers just like the ones spinning off the fingertips ...

Nestor Cortes got behind the plate in a batting cage and watched an 8-foot-high, 1,200-pound robot spit out fastballs, cutters and sweepers just like the ones spinning off the fingertips of his left ...

ESPN baseball reporter. Covered the L.A. Rams for ESPN from 2016 to 2018 and the L.A. Angels for MLB.com from 2012 to 2016. Calhoun cued up all of the Yankees' high-leverage relievers, most of whom he ...