The extreme infield shift is a bit of dare, and Reds catcher Tucker Barnhart is the kind of guy who takes that dare. "It's great to get any kind of hit," he says, "but when they're telling you that ...

GOODYEAR, Arizona – Every spring, former MLB All-Star center fielder Brett Butler used to stop by several spring training facilities and teach the fundamentals that made him one of the best bunters of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Bunt (in front of The Storm): ‘From the mess inside my head. I only paint the nice bits’ Gary Bunt, who has died aged 67, was a ...

Few sports ask players to put themselves in a disadvantage for the sake of unwritten rules quite like baseball does, and we see that whenever a player dares to disregard them. Elly De La Cruz walked ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Stephen Vogt expects that there will be plenty of people with different opinions about the way Cleveland’s bid for a perfect game ended on Wednesday. But the Guardians manager was ...

CLEVELAND — It's called Guards Ball. The Cleveland Guardians play a grit-and-grind brand of baseball rooted in hustle and precision: bunts dropped down to advance runners, singles stretched into ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Few tactics in baseball fuel more debate than the bunt. The sabermetric community has argued against the bunt for decades with its most famous face, Bill ...

WE’RE JUST HERE TO HELP THEM ADJUST. NOW, IN BASEBALL, YOU HAVE PLENTY OF GAME WINNING HITS. BUT WHEN THE LAKE MARY LITTLE LEAGUERS NEEDED A CHAMPIONSHIP HIT, IT WAS A BUNT. YEAH. WESH 2’S DAVE ...