KANSAS CITY, Mo. – In ballparks from Boston to Seattle, it was the baseball move that automatically triggered fans to scream ‘Balk! Balk!" We're referring to, of course, when a pitcher fakes a throw ...
One of Major League Baseball’s balk rules came into play on Sunday afternoon when Padres pitcher Logan Gillaspie was called for back-to-back balks in the first inning. The two calls ended up driving ...
The Gators took a late lead over the Hurricanes on a seventh-inning balk before securing an 8-4, series-clinching win over ...
Back before PitchCom became a popular resource for pitchers and catchers to call pitches, you'd see relief pitchers intentionally commit balks to move a base runner off of second base. It was all ...
Major League Baseball decided to do away with repeated pickoff attempts over to first base a few years ago and hasn't looked back. Under the current rules, if a pitcher disengages with the rubber more ...
There aren't many rules in baseball that can get fans completely torn in an argument like the balk. And Monday's game between the Padres and Guardians was a prime example of that. With Kyle Hart on ...
If it walks like a balk, looks like a balk, and sure as hell moves like a balk, then it’s probably a balk. Unless you’re Matthew Boyd. The Cubs’ lefty has somehow tiptoed past every balk call this ...
Matthew Boyd leads Major League Baseball in pickoffs. To do so, he's pushing the limits of a legal move. The Chicago Cubs' southpaw picked off his eighth base-runner of the season when he nabbed a ...
The Norfolk Tides got dunked on this week by an unexpected foe — the weather. Norfolk (Triple-A affiliate of the Baltimore Orioles) faced off on Tuesday against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp (Triple-A ...
...gonna be honest, I thought I’d already written this review. In 21st-century baseball, fans see cheating as universally ...
Many baseball games have ended in the now tired, overused "walk-off" term. A Pennsylvania high school contest put a unique spin on it. How about the balk-off? In the PIAA-6A State Championship, Cedar ...
Given that Kyle Tucker is expected to sign with another team in free agency this offseason, the expectation is that the Chicago Cubs will try to sign another hitter who can help fill the void Tucker ...