The contact play is baseball’s equivalent of an all-out blitz in football. When the contact play works, it creates a big play out of nothing. But when it doesn’t work, it burns a team. On Friday, in a ...

The Cincinnati Reds were snake bitten by the contact play on Friday night as the potential game-tying run was thrown out at home. The Reds should abandon this strategy, moving forward. The numbers don ...

The contact play is baseball’s equivalent of an all-out blitz in football. When the contact play works, it creates a big play out of nothing. But when it doesn’t work, it burns a team. On Friday, in a ...

That’s how many times this year the Detroit Tigers have had a man on third, less than two outs, and had him thrown out at home on The Contact Play. I’m not alone in thinking it was more than this, ...