Runners trying to reach home plate — and the catchers who often try to block them — will have to follow new rules that are meant to cut the risk of injuries from collisions in the 2014 season.

MLB decided not to ban home-plate collisions%2C only to outlaw the ones deemed %27egregious' The rule is on an experimental basis for the 2014 season TAMPA -- Major League Baseball implemented an ...

The latest experimental alteration, according to Jayson Stark of The Athletic, is the move of second base, which will move slightly closer to home plate during the 2022 season. From Stark's report: ...

For Vanderbilt, players jog home and then stomp emphatically on the plate. It has little to do with the opponent or a particular game. In fact, the Commodores aren’t even sure about the origins ...

Major League Baseball has not outright banned all collisions at home plate. Instead, the new rule only targets the truly unnecessary collisions.

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball says robot home plate umpires are unlikely for 2025. “We still have some technical issues,” baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday at a news ...

Pirates catcher Joey Bart appeared to tag Bellinger on both the foot and leg before Bellinger could get a touch of home plate. Bart tried to hold up the baseball after making the tag, but it was ...

If you have ever wondered what it would look like to stand in the batter’s box against one of Major League Baseball’s elite pitchers, wonder no more. Atlanta Braves ace Spencer Strider led the ...