Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're ...

Athletics outfielder Seth Brown made a strange bit of MLB history in Friday's win over the Seattle Mariners-- thanks to an odd blunder from the umpire. Brown had a patient at-bat in the top of the ...

Imagine stepping up to the plate, locking in on a pitch, and watching it sail outside the zone—only for the ump to call it a ...

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Toronto Blue Jays manager John Schneider was caught disagreeing with home plate umpire Will Little during the team’s 8-2 win over the Baltimore Orioles Friday, and it was all caught on a broadcast.

We've seen it before, and it never gets old: a hot mic picks up someone on an MLB field cursing, whether it's a player ripping on an umpire or ... well, sending more expletives at an umpire.

Despite a protest to home plate umpire Will Little that the ball grazed his foot and that he did not swing, Little called Giménez out on a swing for the second out. Out came Schneider ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game, making the men in blue barely noticeable. Bruce Lazaruk is regarded one of those types of umpires. However, while he might not be seen ...

Great umpires tend to blend into a baseball game ... Braves' Jurickson Profar suspended 80 games for violating MLB's PED policy Major League Baseball is suspending Atlanta Braves outfielder ...

Sure, two games of the 2,430 scheduled MLB games have already been played for the 2025 regular season (with the Dodgers taking both games against the Cubs in Tokyo last week). Everything else is ...