The beauty of the bat flip. It's an art form, and when you combine a bat flip artist's creativity with a momentous swing of the bat, the byproduct is sensational. And it's all magnified exponentially in the postseason. Look no further than Teoscar Hernández's two-run home run in Game 1

It was called “The shot heard ‘round the world” – though the newspaper editors who coined it likely had no idea how right they were. While American baseball has never been shy about applying a global moniker to its domestic contests (it is called the World Series after all), Bobby

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here.

The 2026 MiLB Award for Best New Alternate Identity goes to the Salt Lake Bees. They won it by playing dirty. The Bees -- Triple-A affiliate of the Los Angeles Angels -- suited up as the Dirty Sodas every Wednesday home game this season. This alter ego pays tribute to

Talk about getting the barrel on it. Blue Jays first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr. technically squared up his RBI single in the seventh inning of Friday's 6-5 win over the Reds at Rogers Centre, but he did it in quite an unusual way. On an 0-2 sinker from Cincinnati reliever

DETROIT -- The Tigers celebrated Justin Verlander’s incredible pitching career with an emotional ceremony Friday night, a day before he takes the mound one last time to face the Pirates. But the highlight of the ceremony arguably was Verlander as a catcher, getting behind the plate for the ceremonial first

Henry Rowengartner may have well been playing for the Cubs on Friday, because the synchronized slides from Michael Busch and Dansby Swanson looked like a scene straight out of “Rookie of the Year.” Busch and Swanson each flopped into home plate one second apart, culminating a mad dash around the

The White Sox clinched a postseason berth on Thursday, something that few people outside of the South Siders’ clubhouse could have expected at the start of the season. It’s been an amazing turnaround for a club that lost a Modern Era-record 121 games in 2024 and 102 games in 2025.

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here. What

Barehanding a foul ball at a Major League game? Impressive. Barehanding a foul ball at a Major League game while holding a baby? Now that’s legendary.

BALTIMORE -- If you were watching any of the Blue Jays-Orioles doubleheader at Camden Yards on Wednesday and thought the umpires stationed at first and second base looked quite similar -- almost like they could be doppelgangers -- well, there was a reason for that. Austin and Tyler Jones were

Everyone has a case of Pete Crow-Armstrong fever these days -- just ask WWE star CM Punk. Punk, a Chicago native and diehard Cubs fan, threw out the ceremonial first pitch before Wednesday night’s game between the Cubs and the Marlins at Wrigley Field. Punk took the mound sporting a

Eugenio Suárez hit a milestone home run during the eighth inning of the Reds’ 4-0 win over the Braves at Truist Park on Tuesday night. But it will be remembered not only for being the 350th homer of the slugging third baseman’s career, but also for what happened to the

Some days, nothing can kill your vibe. Tuesday, it would seem, was one of those for Jazz Chisholm Jr. Activated off the 10-day IL between games of the Yankees' doubleheader against the Rays, Chisholm was seeing his first action in two weeks, and his good spirits simply couldn't be contained.

Baseball and the Austro-Turkish War of 1663. They go together like peanuts and Cracker Jack. OK, maybe not. But during Monday’s Nationals-Tigers game, the Detroit telecast and early modern European history intersected while Riley Greene was at the plate in the bottom of the first inning, courtesy of a unique

Yuri Teramoto wore the same number as one of her childhood idols and stood on a mound that has been graced by generations of baseball legends. What was going through Teramoto’s mind as she prepared to throw? Teramoto, a freshman at Hanamaki Higashi High School in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, threw

From fantasy football leagues to cheering on their favorite colleges, MLB players are all about competition, even if it isn’t baseball-related. So leave it to a pair of opposing shortstops to work in a friendly tic-tac-toe clash DURING a baseball game. On Saturday at Busch Stadium, the Nationals’ Nasim Nuñez

Alex Bregman has been surging at the plate the past few weeks, to the tune of a 1.137 OPS with 14 home runs over his past 35 games entering Friday. The Cubs were off on Thursday, but that doesn’t mean Bregman cooled off. This time, it was his horse that

Benjamin Hill travels the nation collecting stories about what makes Minor League Baseball unique. This excerpt from the Baseball Traveler newsletter, presented by Circle K, is a mere taste of the smorgasbord of delights he offers every week. Read the full newsletter here, and subscribe to his newsletter here.

HERRIMAN, Utah -- There is, unsurprisingly, plenty of immaculately manicured grass between Ipswitch Way and Yawkey Way. That is, of course, where you’ll also find Pedroia, Varitek and Eovaldi. But this isn’t Boston. Not even close. Try the very edge of civilization in the deep suburbia of Herriman, Utah, of

NEW YORK -- Billy Joel performed sold-out shows in his home state at Yankee Stadium in 1990. Elton John brought the house down at Dodger Stadium in 1975 at the height of his powers. Frank Sinatra’s “New York, New York” blares through the Yankee Stadium public-address system after every Yankees

PITTSBURGH -- Gavin Deblois and his friends Nate and Gage moved down to the front row beyond the right-field wall at PNC Park in the middle innings of Thursday’s Brewers-Pirates game because they thought it gave them the best chance of getting on television. It was the right move. They

Megastar actor Tom Cruise went viral Monday night for sitting alongside Taylor Swift as the Kansas City Chiefs defeated the Denver Broncos on Monday Night Football. But Cruise’s tour of the city’s sports scene didn’t stop there. Cruise also stopped by Kansas City’s Negro Leagues Baseball Museum on Tuesday, as

Elly De La Cruz has shown off his power. He's shown off his arm. Now it's time to show off his sheer athleticism. With one out and a man on first in the eighth inning of Tuesday night's game against the Dodgers, Max Muncy dribbled a slow roller to third

Chipper Jones is a Braves legend. The Hall of Famer was the first overall pick in the 1990 Draft and went on to become an eight-time All-Star, MVP Award winner and a World Series champion with the franchise. So when the club’s Triple-A affiliate in Gwinnett adopted a rescued cat