DETROIT - It's the newest rule in baseball, and plenty of managers and players will tell you it's also the dumbest. Implemented this season to help avoid home-plate collisions and concussions ...

Says Darling, “If you take an infielder — say David Wright — and you asked him to come over here and stand sideways, 55 feet from home plate, and then said, ‘OK, now I’m going to give a ...

After all the angst, all the confusion, all the outrage over the new rule designed to make collisions at home plate extinct, baseball officials responded Tuesday with one little change.

This season Major League Baseball took a crash course in how to eliminate collisions at home plate. In its first year, Rule 7.13 has been celebrated and criticized, but a much bigger injury risk ...

Whether it was standing at home plate in Eddyville on Monday night or standing behind home plate on Tuesday night just north ...

Some tickets behind home plate exceeded $3,000 earlier in the week. The fan appeared to leave his seat sometime later in the game, sparking speculation that he had been removed by stadium security.