Hitting is tougher than ever in October. Teams deploy their best pitchers, and the pressure on every pitch ramps up to max intensity. But that hasn't stopped baseball's biggest sluggers from crushing some monster postseason home runs -- take, for instance, Joc Pederson's game-tying 454-footer in Game 2 of the...

The Braves, having dispatched with the Brewers, have some time before starting Game 1 of the National League Championship Series vs. the Dodgers on Saturday night at Truist Park. That gives us some time to ask if you’ve noticed the substantial change they made in the middle of the season...

Imagine being able to routinely hit triple-digits on the radar gun. Now, imagine those fireballs you threw can veer nearly three feet before they hit the catcher’s mitt. Then, imagine you’re the batter trying to hit all that. The Dodgers have an embarrassment of riches in their bullpen, but Brusdar...

This postseason has already featured some memorable plays. And now fans can see those plays in a whole new way thanks to MLB FieldVision. FieldVision tracks every play in 3D, allowing you to see everything that happens on the field from angles and perspectives that you could never get from...

Baseball has always been a simple game. You throw the ball hard. You hit the ball hard. And sometimes, the ball is hit with such force that you can’t help but ask yourself, “Just how hard was that thing hit?!” Thanks to Statcast, we now know the exit velocity of...

PITTSBURGH -- The first time Ke’Bryan Hayes saw Oneil Cruz hit baseballs in person, Cruz was a 19-year-old prospect at Pirate City in Bradenton, Fla. Over and over, the tall, lanky shortstop would send balls to dead center off the curveball machine. “He’s gonna be a really fun one to...

ARLINGTON -- Shohei Ohtani regularly does mind-blowing things on the field, but it reached new heights in the Angels' 7-2 win over the Rangers on Wednesday, as he hit a single so hard off reliever Josh Sborz that it broke second baseman Andy Ibáñez's glove in the ninth inning. Ohtani...

Ten years ago today, the 2011 Orioles were in last place, playing out the string of what would be a 69-93 season, their 14th consecutive year finishing third or lower. They’d finish 28 games out of first, thanks in large part to baseball’s worst pitching. With the meaningful portion of...

In case you’re wondering whether it’s unusual for the Braves to be using Jorge Soler \-\- a player who is large and powerful, but not terribly fast or renowned for his contact or on-base skills -- atop their lineup, as they’ve been doing for the past four games, know that...

“For me, this is as good as I can remember him,” said Dodgers infielder Trea Turner last weekend about Max Scherzer, and Turner should know better than anyone. After all, they each joined the Nationals in 2015 -- Scherzer was the starting pitcher in the first game Turner ever started...