SAN FRANCISCO — Randy Rodríguez didn’t need to tweak his slider. The pitch was performing well; Rodríguez was, too. But as April gave way to May, Rodríguez didn’t like the state of the pitch. There ...

Ridgetown, Ont., lays claim to the slider and is honouring that history with a sculpture. A slider is a type of pitch used by baseball pitchers to try and fool the batter by putting a tight spin on a ...

Welcome to Sliders, a weekly in-season MLB column that focuses on both the timely and timeless elements of the game. COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – Billy Wagner broke his right arm twice when he was 5 years old.

The best pitch a pitcher can throw is a well-located fastball, and the Mariners subscribed to that philosophy more than any team in MLB this season. Mariners pitchers combined to throw fastballs (four ...

The nastiest pitch in baseball is the one that ended the 2018 season. Other Major League Baseball players didn’t laugh as Manny Machado dropped to his knee trying to hit a Chris Sale slider to end the ...

For most of Thursday night, it looked like the Seattle Mariners were on their way to a comfortable win. Up 5-0 at one point, they carried a two-run lead into the ninth. But a pitch-tipping blunder by ...

Spring Training is the time to work on new things. Pitchers love to work on new grips and try out new pitches in live game situations. Sometimes they work, sometimes they don't and it is best to ...