Athletics outfielder Seth Brown made a strange bit of MLB history in Friday's win over the Seattle Mariners -- thanks to an ...

Anil Chaudhary, a veteran umpire, believes that Indian umpires are struggling due to overemphasis on theoretical knowledge ...

Baseball has been undergoing some pretty dramatic changes. The sport may still be timeless in a sense, but it is now timed.

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...

This is The Athletic’s MLB newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Windup directly in your inbox. Two years ago on Opening ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Over his 50 years as an umpire, Bruce Lazaruk tries his best not to be seen on the baseball diamond. But that doesn't mean he ...

Teams won 52.2% of their ball/strike challenges during the spring training test of robot umpires, and catchers had a markedly ...

A man in a league of his own, Bruce Lazaruk, was honored Wednesday for dedicating 50 years of service as an umpire on the ...

Now, the umpires can check the bats of the players, not only during the game but also during the practice sessions. There are ...