Pitcher - A pitcher is the fielder designated to deliver the pitch to the batter. The pitcher shall stand facing the batter, his entire pivot foot on, or in front of and touching and not off the end ...

This year’s Basic baseball team will look a bit different. The Wolves graduated 17 seniors from last year’s Class 5A state championship team, but they still enter the season as one of the favorites to ...

Basic’s Tate Southisene was confident going up to the plate in the bottom of the eighth inning of a tied Class 5A Southern Region baseball winners’ bracket semifinal Thursday. He was so confident he ...

The next step on the path to baseball literacy comes from defensive statistics. These metrics are used in several ways: assessing a player’s value and efficiency while fielding balls in play and ...

DEAR CAL: We have a 5-year-old boy who loves baseball, and we feel he has potential. Last year he had to play T-ball because of his age and Baltimore County, Md., rules. He got very upset because he ...

Baseball managers are always harping about them, how important the basics of the game are to success. One of those details — reliever Blake Hawksworth's failure to cover first base — came back to slap ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Freddie Freeman’s father has long been the one in his ear with an encouraging word and some advice to simplify his swing. Even now, in his mid-30s, he still hears it from dad: Return ...