For the third straight season, Major League Baseball is taking measures to cut down on the use of “sticky stuff” by pitchers across the sport. MLB vice president Michael Hill sent a memo to all 30 ...

Now that Major League Baseball's crackdown on foreign substances is finally here, all sorts of potentially avoidable Hell is poised to break loose. After first warning pitchers in March that it was ...

Across Major League Baseball, batting averages are down, strikeouts are up, and suspicions are high. For decades, pitchers — including some hall of famers — have tried to get a better grip of the ball ...

Max Scherzer was becoming unglued on the field, and it’s hard to blame him. While he was booted from a game and is hit with an “automatic” 10-game ban, that isn’t close to Scherzer’s real issue now.

Pitchers’ use of sticky stuff — even the performance-enhancing superglue — and the forthcoming crackdown isn’t really a cheating scandal, it’s a belated reckoning that has more to do with aesthetics ...

Major League Baseball is cracking down on pitchers’ use of foreign substances, a renewed effort after the league found evidence of sticky stuff used to generate more spin rate on baseballs. The league ...