The Cincinnati Reds were snake bitten by the contact play on Friday night as the potential game-tying run was thrown out at home. The Reds should abandon this strategy, moving forward. The numbers don ...

The Cincinnati Reds were snake bitten by the contact play on Friday night as the potential game-tying run was thrown out at home in their 5-4 loss to the Tigers. The Reds should abandon this strategy ...

The contact play is baseball’s equivalent of an all-out blitz in football. When the contact play works, it creates a big play out of nothing. But when it doesn’t work, it burns a team. On Friday, in a ...

For the second year in a row, the Royals are in the World Series. The Royals have had the lowest strikeout rate of any MLB team over each of the past two seasons. These aren’t unrelated facts, but the ...

That’s how many times this year the Detroit Tigers have had a man on third, less than two outs, and had him thrown out at home on The Contact Play. I’m not alone in thinking it was more than this, ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. — Mark Teixeira didn’t appreciate Ben Francisco making contact with him on a grounder to first base yesterday. The Phillies outfielder, instead of pulling up and being tagged out with ...

Detroit — It always seems like the contact play results in an out at home plate, does it not? Case in point: Zach McKinstry was going on contact from third base with one out in the sixth inning Monday ...

The Mets hit a home run when the team sent William “Mookie” Wilson to hang out with soldiers at Fort Hamilton on Aug. 31. The move proved that the franchise from Flushing is the most veteran-friendly ...

Former Notre Dame backup quarterback Steve Angeli has transferred to Syracuse, and he got injured on a non-contact play in the Orange's matchup against the Clemson Tigers. Angeli was actually hurt ...

INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Los Angeles Chargers running back Najee Harris injured his left Achilles tendon on a non-contact play in the second quarter of a 23-20 win over the Denver Broncos on Sunday.