For a while, whether you called it a forkball or a splitter, Roki Sasaki threw one signature offspeed pitch. You could ...

Watching the 2025 World Series, it was clear that one pitch reigned supreme: the splitter. In a playful social media interaction with A's outfielder Brent Rooker, SF Giants ace Logan Webb jokingly ...

A little more than a decade ago, a pitcher by the name of R.A. Dickey threw a kind of knuckleball that baseball had essentially never seen. Now Roki Sasaki might be taking it a step further. Rather ...

TORONTO -- In Game 6 of the World Series on Friday, two of the foremost practitioners of the pitch that has defined October will duel at Rogers Centre. Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu ...

The split-fingered fastball is the "it" pitch right now, but it is still rarely thrown by left-handed pitchers. Why is that? Illustration: Demetrius Robinson / The Athletic; iStock During the final ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers are counting on Shohei Ohtani pitching during the 2025 season, but when that will become a reality remains open ended. During the offseason, manager Dave Roberts suggested ...

Every year, it seems like a new pitch is the most popular in baseball. This year in the World Series, one pitch has more potency than any other for the Toronto Blue Jays and Los Angeles Dodgers: the ...

VIERA, Fla. - Every pitch has a pedigree, and the lineage of the splitter Joe Ross unveiled in game for the first time Monday afternoon is a doozy. It was born in a conversation with a teammate, ...

LOS ANGELES — The New York Yankees can have their torpedo bats. The Dodgers have the splitter. In baseball’s ever-adapting laboratory of trends, the hunt always is on for the next best thing.

TORONTO — Mr. Splitty has returned. Showcased by World Series Game 6 starters Kevin Gausman and Yoshinobu Yamamoto, split-finger fastballs have been used for 6.8% of postseason pitches this year, more ...