I spoke with 10 All-Star hitters at the Midsummer Classic about how they take batting practice, and a clear trend emerged.

When the Red Sox team flight back from Colorado last month was delayed and the club didn’t land in Boston until 5 a.m. the next morning, interim manager Chad Tracy let his players report to the ...

Houston Astros second baseman Jose Altuve faced live pitching Wednesday afternoon at Daikin Park in a significant step toward his return from a left oblique strain. Altuve took live swings against a ...

NEW YORK — It had been 641 days since Shohei Ohtani last threw a pitch to a live hitter from a big league mound. At 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, inside an empty Citi Field on a cool afternoon in Queens, he ...

When he underwent surgery to repair a broken bone and torn labrum in his left shoulder in April, Trevor Story resigned himself to the crushing reality of his circumstance for 2024. “After the surgery, ...

Matt Noone dreamed of a Red Sox World Series parade long before he was in one. Noone grew up playing baseball in the Boston suburbs, and when he got into coaching in the 1990s, Noone found jobs around ...

PHOENIX — As he threw batting practice to Shohei Ohtani on Friday, Dodgers third base coach Dino Ebel learned more about the superstar slugger based on what he did with bad pitches, not good ones.

For everyone in attendance inside an empty Dodger Stadium on Wednesday evening, it was simply business as usual. Wednesday’s workout was more of a formality, a chance for the players to stretch and ...

TAMPA — Trent Grisham is a few months into his third organization, so by now he knows the reactions that are coming whenever anybody sees him take batting practice for the first time. To the ...