Baseball pitches aren’t living creatures; they don’t have feathers. They do fly, though, and to an incurious or uninitiated observer, their flights and behaviors could blend together. “Pitches,” one ...

Two minutes, one out! One minute, two outs! Two minutes, three outs! Batter up, batter down, batter up, batter down, batter up, batter down. Groundoutflyoutflyout. So went the accounting of the first ...

Baseball's new pitch clock is the greatest invention ever, with the exception of the wheel. Check that. The wheel gave us two blights on American life: traffic jams and Pat Sajak. There are no such ...

The primary goal of Major League Baseball’s new pitch clock is to shave 20 or 30 minutes off the sport’s plodding three-plus-hour games. But the rollout of the clock this season raises an intriguing ...

One of the oldest clichés on the planet, like many clichés, has a nugget of truth: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Until this spring, Major League Baseball was broke. The games, even for those of ...

Relief pitchers, who infrequently face the same batter more than once in a game, have historically succeeded with the help of one or two pitch types that are thrown with maximum effort. In this ...

Pitch tempo refers to how much time a pitcher takes between pitches. The Pitch Tempo leaderboard on Baseball Savant shows which MLB pitchers work the fastest, and the slowest. Statcast's pitch tempo ...