Snyder's Soapbox: Let's establish some ground rules for catching baseballs at a game and how far fans can go Above all else, don't be a jerk, but here are the rest of the rules for catching and ...

Opposite, Connor Hopkins was tagged with the pitching loss for Winner/Colome, yielding 12 hits but no walks through seven ...

Unlike sports with uniform specifications for their fields, baseball has always allowed for at least some variance. ... 17 ground-rule triples were hit in the nine-game series.

The increase in batting average on ground balls is a nice bump, but it has not changed how baseball is played. Look at the rate of ground balls hit—it has gone down despite the field opening up.