Most of MLB's new rules are actually pretty easy to get behind. Defensive shifts were very effective, but the optics of actually watching them in games was pretty bad and the game isn't "lesser" for ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Visiting teams had a 109-107 edge in extra-inning games this year in the second season starting extra innings with a runner on second base has been a permanent rule. Visitors have a ...

Max Fried wasn’t his sharpest in Tuesday’s 11-inning, 2-1 loss to the Mariners, but it wasn’t his fault the Yankees fell in Seattle. Nor was it Tim Hill’s, even though he surrendered a walk-off single ...

Major League Baseball's extra innings format is different in the playoffs from the regular season, getting rid of the "ghost runner" starting on second base once a game goes beyond nine innings.

Nothing in sports is as consistent and verifiable as the idea of home-field advantage. It’s a given, regardless of the sport. Academics and analysts can (and do) spend their careers trying to figure ...