When a game hinges on inches and instincts, you’d expect the arbiters of baseball to bring their A-game, not their blindfolds ...

Chris Conroy, a veteran umpire and crew chief, joined the club in Friday’s Cleveland Guardians-Pittsburgh Pirates game. The ...

Some MLB fans are angry after New York Yankees star Jazz Chisholm Jr. was ejected after arguing a controversial call.

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If Aaron Judge comes up one home run short of breaking his own AL record this season, Sunday will live in infamy.

Working behind the plate in the Rockies' 12-5 win over the Athletics, Bucknor missed 15 ball-strike calls with four incorrectly called strikeouts. Some of them weren't even close. We would have seen ...

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FanGraphs’ Davy Andrews pointed me toward Statcast data on Baseball Savant that shows how much ball-strike calls — by human umps — have gotten better in recent years. Here’s a look ...

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Incorrect calls aren’t necessarily innately bad; after all, fans, players, managers, and umpires have worked with a somewhat nebulous definition of the strike zone since the advent of baseball ...

Baseball diehards at Grapefruit and Cactus ... with players and managers possibly being allowed to challenge some ball and strike calls. It would be a highly significant rule change on two levels ...