Replay review in Major League Baseball is designed to provide timely review of certain disputed calls and is initiated by a manager challenge or by the umpire crew chief.

There's a simple rule that goes along with Major League Baseball's new replay system: Never, ever suggest it's not worth moving heaven and earth to get it right. Those are the only three words you ...

Last summer, when Major League Baseball announced plans for a new replay system to review controversial calls, I wrote that it might make games more exciting to watch, rather than less, as some ...

Baseball is the game most rooted in its old traditions, which is why its success rate at making monumental rule changes has been so impressive. No purist wanted each league to add a wild-card team but ...

Anthony Volpe’s apparent game-tying home run was changed to an RBI double after a Yankees fan reached over the left-field ...

Not knowing how - or simply displaying an unwillingness - to utilize technology when it's available is dimwitted. Bud Selig, your sport is being dimwitted about how it utilizes instant replay. Without ...

As crowds fill the stands in AT&T Park this year, they'll be focused on the usual ballpark festivities: eating hot dogs, drinking beer and, of course, watching the San Francisco Giants play baseball.

ST. LOUIS, MO - SEPTEMBER 29: Matt Carpenter #13 of the St. Louis Cardinals scores the game-winning run against the Cincinnati Reds in the ninth inning at Busch Stadium on September 29, 2016 in St.

In baseball, not all plays are created equal. Thanks to recent computer analysis, we know precisely how much any possible play changes a team’s chance of victory. More than half of all plays change ...

Hampton Stevens (writer, ESPN and The Atlantic), Patrick Hruby (writer, Sports on Earth and The Atlantic), and Jake Simpson (writer, The Atlantic) discuss the World Series: Simpson: All right, here we ...

Inaccuracy is inevitable in a game with as many intricacies as baseball. Balls will be called strikes, checked swings will be debated, and the infield fly rule will confound fans forever. But one of ...