NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — Big league pitchers are always at risk, but they might feel safer on the mound this season. Major League Baseball has approved a protective cap for pitchers, hoping to ...

Todd Redmond of the Toronto Blue Jays recently modeled one of the new protective caps for pitchers being produced by IsoBlox. Todd Redmond, modeling the new protective caps for pitchers. He and others ...

Fans will get expanded protection from line-drive foul balls at the Atlanta Braves’ new stadium. Protective netting will extend from behind home plate to the far end of both dugouts at SunTrust Park, ...

Cubs hitter Albert Almora Jr. was in anguish Wednesday night in Houston after his line-drive foul ball struck a young girl. He knew immediately after making contact that he’d sent a dangerous ...

The more I learn about baseball, the more I think that much of the perceived divide between traditional baseball types and statheads—which is itself overstated—stems from some subset of each side ...

"Baseball has kind of taken a different direction especially with the use of their restrictions on bats, and they've done a very good job of monitoring and testing the bats and bat speed, the contact ...