MINNEAPOLIS, MN - MAY 22: manager John Gibbons #5 of the Toronto Blue Jays reacts as first base umpire Joe West #22 tosses him and home plate umpire Mark Ripperger #90 looks on during the fifth inning ...

PHOENIX — It was a clean, old-school, beanball war, one that was routine a generation ago, and one that’s so bungled these days. There was intent. There was retaliation. Five batters were hit, two ...

Reigning American League MVP Josh Donaldson lashed out Sunday after Twins starter Phil Hughes-- whose control is as good as any pitcher in the game -- nearly hit him twice, first with a pitch near his ...

Americans are about to meet a new brand of baseball — where bats flips are the norm, the crowd is usually more raucous and sometimes the pitcher bows to the hitter after a beanball. The KBO, Korea’s ...

Used to be the players would take care of their own beanball wars. And they did it with a lot more oomph than the half-hearted, postgame "charge" Milwaukee first baseman Prince Fielder staged toward ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Charles M. Schulz’s biography describes Charlie Brown as a lovable loser, a child possessed of endless determination and hope but who is ultimately dominated ...

Jim Palmer played for Earl Weaver and knew firsthand Weaver’s belief that hitting batters as retaliation made no sense, and in conversation Friday afternoon he quickly recalled the anecdote that best ...

Consider this great inane internet debate of years past: Which athletes are best equipped to win a Battle Royale if limited to their own sport’s equipment with no protective padding or helmets? Hockey ...

In baseball, there are too many incidents that result in a pitcher intentionally throwing a 90-plus mph fastball into the back - and sometimes, even the head - of defenseless hitters. Another case of ...

Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Josh Donaldson has had enough of the baseball code with allows pitchers to get off relatively lightly for throwing projectiles upwards of 100 miles per hour at hitters.

A baseball player who is hit in the head by a pitch has no grounds for a lawsuit because beanballs, even at the community college level, are part of the game, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday.

Baseball brawls like the one at Camden Yards Sunday bring out conflicting emotions in a fan. One is sympathetic understanding for a team’s protecting its own: It’s a pitcher’s duty to send a 90-mph ...