Mound visits are limited to four per team per nine innings, though an extra mound visit is awarded for the ninth inning if the defensive team has zero remaining visits at the end of the eighth. Teams ...

We need to talk about Bill Murphy’s walk to the mound, because the thing has somehow become one of the funniest recurring bits of the early Pirates season. Not the mound visit itself. The actual ...

The pitcher steps onto the mound, and the game slows, just for a moment. Cleats press into the dirt. Fingers find familiar seams. There is a brief pocket of quiet where years of training, repetition ...