One byproduct of the automatic runner on second base is that extra innings are one of the few times managers can still ...

The rules are the rules -- unless somebody changes them. Well, if ever there were a case to change any rule in sports, that rule would be the intentional-walk rule. And the man we would hire as chief ...

Is this the year baseball raises the strike zone? Is it the year the sport does away with the practice of lobbing four balls toward home plate to issue an intentional walk? Major League Baseball has ...

Precisely because of Shohei Ohtani, the intentional walk has once again found itself in the crosshairs of baseball’s aspiring reformers. In light of how often the Los Angeles Dodgers‘ two-way player ...

The strategic use of intentional walks has evolved in Major League Baseball, particularly during extra innings. This article ...

Darrell Thompson, reliever for the Campeche Pirates, left everyone speechless by handing out an intentional walk—without ...

Shohei Ohtani has broken a lot of baseball conventional wisdom. He took a new step on Monday night, in Game 3 of the World Series. Ohtani has been on an unholy tear of late, even by his standards.