Fans using their cellphone lights caused a brief delay when the Detroit Tigers were batting in the seventh inning at Fenway Park...

Milwaukee sits atop the National League by using the same formula of speed and strong relief pitching that got Kansas City a title three years ago.

Decades after he redefined the game, the 24-time All-Star continues to be revered by fans and historians alike

The Kansas CIty Royals went pitching-heavy in the 2018 MLB draft, choosing five college arms with the 18th, 33rd, 34th, 40th and 58th overall picks on Monday night. It was part of their plan to focus on improving pitching depth in the organization.

Regulations intended to tame offenses have forced many families of young players to dig deep into their pockets.

Whit Merrifield, according to Statcast's Sprint Speed metric, was second on the Kansas City Royals' active roster in Statcast's Sprint Speed, covering 29.0 feet per second. The fastest as of Wednesday — at 29.1 — happened to be someone else.

The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League did everything it could to keep lesbians off the diamond. Seventy-five years later, its gay stars are finally opening up.

Thanks to MLB's sabermetrics revolution, the defensive shift has changed the basic principles of the game. So what does the data tell us about baseball's future?

Major League Baseball attendance is headed to its lowest average in 15 years. And it’s not only because of the historically bad weather that’s plagued the first third of the season. Strikeouts exceeded hits in a full calendar month for the first time in April and are on track to do so again in May. Five teams are on pace to lose 100 or more games in the same season for the first time.

The Royals opted to not bring back World Series champion pitching coach Dave Eiland this offseason, could that be playing a part with the struggles of the Royals rotation?

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Tomoyuki Sugano may be the best pitcher in the world who isn’t in the major leagues, but the 28-year-old Yomiuri Giants star intends to rectify that situation. Last season’s winner of the Eiji Sawamura Award as Japan’s most impressive starting pitcher, the soft-spoken right-hander has had the majors in his sights since he starred at Tokai University. But when he had the chance, he instead chose the Giants, where his uncle Tatsunori Hara was then the manager.

If a player “snaps” — baseball slang for having a temper tantrum — it’s a good idea to leave the dugout. Wise major-leaguers don’t let TV cameras catch them smashing dugout water coolers with baseball bats; it’s a bad look that will get a guy on SportsCenter for all the wrong reasons.

In an MLB season that has featured more strikeouts than ever before, the Kansas City Royals — for another day — lagged in that all-important aspect during a 5-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday afternoon at Kauffman Stadium.

We now have the Baby Cakes, the Rumble Ponies, the Fire Frogs and that's just the beginning.

For decades, soccer and baseball were played on contaminated fields in Red Hook, Brooklyn. In 2012, several were closed. More closed in 2015. Locals are wondering when the cleanup will start.

The Atlanta Braves are, as they say, “ahead of schedule.” Going into the season, we commended their young talent base but gave them just a 15 percent shot at making the playoffs, figuring that they’d need another year of rebuilding before truly making the leap toward contention. Fast-forward a month, however, and Atlanta is blowing away those expectations: Against a difficult schedule, the Braves are 19-11 and occupy first place in the NL East — one and a half games clear of the New York Mets, who they just swept in a three-game series. So far, at least, the Braves’ future appears to be now.

The Inland Empire 66ers were unhittable in a 4-0 win over Lake Elsinore on Wednesday night. Jason Alexander, Zac Ryan and Sean Isaac combined to throw the first no-hitter since 2007 for the Angels' Class A Advanced Affiliate. It was also the second no-hitter in the Angels' organization in the past five days as No. 8 prospect Griffin Canning led Double-A Mobile to a combined no-hitter on May 28.

A 35-year-old veteran of 13 major league seasons, Kinsler believes most pitchers use pine tar to get a better grip on the ball, and he’s glad they do.

Even before Patrick Corbin established himself as one of the best pitchers in baseball through the first month of this season, the New York Yankees had their eye on the young hurler. It appears the feeling of attraction may be mutual, as the 28-year-old left-hander says he would love to don the pinstripes. "I know the Yankees have had some interest in the past, and there were a lot of rumors this winter that got my family excited," Corbin told Bob Nightengale of USA TODAY Sports. "It would have been cool. You just want to go where you’re wanted, and every team will have an opportunity."