Those who are loading up with a “grip enhancement” on the mound are violating Official Baseball Rule 6.02, which states that the pitcher may not “apply a foreign substance of any kind to the ...

But modern pitchers aren’t doctoring the ball to gain a competitive advantage; they just want a better grip on it. They prefer a slightly sticky ball, not a slippery one.

The longest-lasting relationship in baseball is between the pitcher and the baseball. From Little League to retirement, most Major League pitchers have a baseball as an extension of his body.

Keith Meister has been outspoken about pitching injuries in baseball and what needs to change. He points to how the Tampa Bay ...

NEW YORK (AP) Get a grip. Using a suspicious substance for a better hold of the baseball on cool days is not such a sticky situation. Whether it's the Yankees' Michael Pineda with a mysterious ...

Gerrit Cole hardly expects a smooth transition when Major League Baseball ups its efforts against sticky substances. Then again, the Yankees ace — like many around the game — isn't entirely ...

For the last year, Major League Baseball has aggressively tried to cut down on pitchers using illegal substances to improve their grip on baseballs. New York Mets manager Buck Showalter seems to ...

Since the sport's beginning, pitchers have been trying to put things on the baseball to make it do something it otherwise wouldn’t do. Those things include substances such as pine tar, spit ...

There is one type of baseball all pitchers agree that needs to be replaced. “When it’s hit 100 mph off the bat somewhere,” McGarry said, you’re like, ‘Let’s get a new one in there.” ...

Baseball’s steroid era had a negative effect on the game may even keep some of the game’s best home run hitters out of the Hall of ... MLB pitchers' using 'extra-grip substance' at increasing ...

On a cold night, pitchers were struggling to find a grip. The same thing happened to the Tigers late in the game Tuesday night as temperatures dipped into the 30s.