TORONTO -- In Game 6 of the World Series on Friday, two of the foremost practitioners of the pitch that has defined October will duel at Rogers Centre. Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu ...

Trey Yesavage dominated the Yankees in his postseason debut last weekend. (Illustration: Eamonn Dalton / The Athletic; Michael Chisholm / MLB Photos via Getty Images) Electric. Dominant. Unhittable.

The Atlanta Braves targeted Hurston Waldrep in the first round of the 2023 draft as a potentially fast-moving college arm whose fastball, splitter combo could have him helping the big league team ...

Welcome to the Postseason of the Splitter. More than pumpkin spice, the split-finger fastball has become the flavor of the month. Its use in the postseason (6% of all pitches, or 17.4 per game) has ...

LOS ANGELES — The New York Yankees can have their torpedo bats. The Dodgers have the splitter. In baseball’s ever-adapting laboratory of trends, the hunt always is on for the next best thing.

It was time for the TBS analysts to change speeds. After Game 1 of the NLCS, all the talk was about Blake Snell's use of a dominant changeup. Before Game 2 on the network's pregame show, Hall of Fame ...