The Athletics' Seth Brown was at the plate when everyone, including the umpire, seemed to forget the count. Usually you're awarded first base after four balls in at at-bat. Brown, however, took five ...

Baseball is full of situations. What gets tricky is when those situations become incidents. This is the language of umpires.

Check out the historical rundown below: Worst Records, MLB History 1899 Cleveland Spiders: 20-134, .130 1916 Philadelphia A's: 36-117, .235 1935 Boston Braves: 38-115, .248 2024 Chicago White Sox ...

It's a way to correct the most egregious mistakes, and it does it quickly. MLB's umpires are very good -- they're the best in the world at what they do -- and they're getting better too.

A brief moment of venting under one umpire can become a total explosion under another. Which is why situation management has its own dedicated section of the curriculum at MLB Umpire Prospect ...