As crowds fill the stands in AT&T Park this year, they'll be focused on the usual ballpark festivities: eating hot dogs, drinking beer and, of course, watching the San Francisco Giants play baseball.

— -- There's a simple rule that goes along with Major League Baseball's new replay system: Never, ever suggest it's not worth moving heaven and earth to get it right. Those are the only three ...

Last summer, when Major League Baseball announced plans for a new replay system to review controversial calls, I wrote that it might make games more exciting to watch, rather than less, as some ...

Baseball is the game most rooted in its old traditions, which is why its success rate at making monumental rule changes has been so impressive. No purist wanted each league to add a wild-card team but ...

— -- The replay machines first started humming on the final day of March 2014, with a 105-second review of a call at first base in Pittsburgh. Can we all agree that baseball hasn't been the same ...

These are bad times for America's pastime. Umpire Jim Joyce ruined a perfect game last night by calling pitcher Armando Galarraga's final and 27th out "safe." Replays showed that Joyce was blatantly ...

We never hesitate to recommend taking in a minor league game. It’s a fun time at a fair price, with an added attraction this year. You might see a certain bit of craziness that the major leagues have ...

Umpires Eric Cooper, left, and Tom Hallion listen on headphones during a challenge in a Seattle Mariners-Houston Astros game on May 22. Early this year, Major League Baseball introduced dramatically ...

Major League Baseball ramped up its instant replay system Thursday, with owners, players and umpires approving sweeping changes in how close calls will be reviewed. A look at the new way of putting ...

Baseball has been called America’s pastime for upwards of 130 years now and has come a long way. A game once played with sticks and stones is now being played in 50,000 seat venues with millions of ...

Major League Baseball’s replay review era has arrived, and I already wish it would end. That’s because the system is a mess, robbing the sport of clarity and—just as significantly—drama. It’s too much ...

CINCINNATI — It would be easy to posit that Whit Merrifield has been the most valuable member of the 2018 Royals. He is just the second Kansas City player ever to record 40 doubles and 40 stolen bases ...