There are a lot of ways to lose a baseball game, but the Houston Astros managed to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7 on Saturday night in one of the most annoying ways possible: a balk. Let's set ...

Pitchers aren’t the only players who can be called for balks, evidently, and the San Francisco Giants found this out the hard way. I, a man paid to write about baseball, did not know this either! So I ...

But, seriously, what is a balk, anyway? Baseball has a fair amount of rules that are open to subjectivity, but none more famous than a balk. While there are letter-of-the-law rules regarding a balk, ...

The San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Brewers’ series this weekend has been nothing short of dramatic, and the ending of Saturday’s game added to the theater. The Giants had the bases loaded in the ...

A former soccer player who now lives and works in Barcelona, Paul has been living in Spain since 2011. Ten years later in 2021 is when he joined the Diario AS family and he's been churning out ...

Many baseball games have ended in the now tired, overused "walk-off" term. A Pennsylvania high school contest put a unique spin on it. How about the balk-off? In the PIAA-6A State Championship, Cedar ...

Yadier Molina has played 19 seasons in the big leagues. He knows a balk when he sees one, and apparently, he knows it better than an entire umpiring crew. The Pittsburgh Pirates were upset on Tuesday ...

Max Scherzer has theorized that baseball's new pitch clock will allow pitchers to dictate the pace of games. In the eyes of one umpire, he raced too fast even for the pitch timer Friday. Scherzer ...

The Chicago White Sox continue to come up with painful ways to lose. Just when they thought they’ve seen it all, the Sox fell 7-6 to the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday at Kauffman Stadium. The ...