There are a lot of ways to lose a baseball game, but the Houston Astros managed to lose to the Los Angeles Dodgers 8-7 on Saturday night in one of the most annoying ways possible: a balk. Let's set ...

Pitchers aren’t the only players who can be called for balks, evidently, and the San Francisco Giants found this out the hard way. I, a man paid to write about baseball, did not know this either! So I ...

OK, so: This is going to get a little complicated. But that's seemingly the case when it comes to what is and isn't a balk in Major League Baseball. And we'll see if that becomes a factor in the 2022 ...

A former soccer player who now lives and works in Barcelona, Paul has been living in Spain since 2011. Ten years later in 2021 is when he joined the Diario AS family and he's been churning out ...

If it walks like a balk, looks like a balk, and sure as hell moves like a balk, then it’s probably a balk. Unless you’re Matthew Boyd. The Cubs’ lefty has somehow tiptoed past every balk call this ...

You've heard of an intentional walk but how about an intentional balk? Saturday's MLB Rivalry Weekend game between the Los Angeles Angels and Los Angeles Dodgers offered a clear reason why the phrase ...

The San Francisco Giants and Milwaukee Brewers’ series this weekend has been nothing short of dramatic, and the ending of Saturday’s game added to the theater. The Giants had the bases loaded in the ...

Yadier Molina has played 19 seasons in the big leagues. He knows a balk when he sees one, and apparently, he knows it better than an entire umpiring crew. The Pittsburgh Pirates were upset on Tuesday ...

"How is that a balk?" That certainly appeared to be what Astros reliever Ryne Stanek — and likely others watching at home — were wondering as second-base umpire Junior Valentine signaled for the ...

Matthew Boyd leads Major League Baseball in pickoffs. To do so, he's pushing the limits of a legal move. The Chicago Cubs' southpaw picked off his eighth base-runner of the season when he nabbed a ...