Here comes the pitch, and … freeze it there. Pause for a second. At this instant, the moment a pitcher releases the baseball, a path has been chosen, and the ball is about to embark on it. The pitch ...

A little more than a decade ago, a pitcher by the name of R.A. Dickey threw a kind of knuckleball that baseball had essentially never seen. Now Roki Sasaki might be taking it a step further. Rather ...

TORONTO -- In Game 6 of the World Series on Friday, two of the foremost practitioners of the pitch that has defined October will duel at Rogers Centre. Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu ...

The split-fingered fastball is the "it" pitch right now, but it is still rarely thrown by left-handed pitchers. Why is that? Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; iStock During the final ...

Yahoo Sports senior MLB analyst Jake Mintz and senior MLB analyst Jordan Shusterman react to Roki Sasaki’s debut with the Los Angeles Dodgers and praise his impressive pitching through three innings ...

Every year, we see a new trend with pitches. Remember when it was Marco Estrada succeeding by throwing fastballs up in the zone? Last year, it was the introduction – of the name, really – of the ...

Bryce Miller has a very, very good fastball. The problem for him as a rookie, especially after an incredible start, is that was pretty much all he had. Among pitchers who threw at least 2,000 pitches ...