Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. LOS ANGELES (AP) — Umpires barred Dodgers manager Dave Roberts from using a position player to pitch the ninth inning against the ...

Definition. Pitchers are permitted to use two legal pitching deliveries -- the windup position and the set position -- and either position may be used at any time. A ...

The 2025 MLB season has seen some instances where teams allow a position player to pitch in the game. It seems to have been happening more frequently this year, and former pitcher John Smoltz is tired ...

Whenever a position player has pitched with James McCann behind the plate, he gives the same piece of advice. He followed it when he took a major league mound himself for the first time. Pitching the ...

USA TODAY Sports has live coverage of Dodgers vs. Blue Jays in World Series Game 4. LOS ANGELES — Just how close did this World Series come to suffering the indignity of a position player pitching in ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers were prevented from pitching a position player during their half of the ninth inning on Saturday night against the New York Mets after unwittingly violating a recent addition ...

We were close, y'all. Or at least we THINK we were close: There was a possibility that a position player could have come in and pitched in the World Series. The situation: Both the Los Angeles Dodgers ...

Last week, the Baseball America staff got into a discussion about the prevalence of position players pitching in the minors. We’d seen several games over the past week in which teams threw in the ...