Emmy Award-winning journalist Kris Van Cleave is the senior transportation correspondent for CBS News based in Phoenix, Arizona, where he also serves as a national correspondent reporting for all CBS ...

The ghost runner on second base has been a divisive rule change in baseball. Fans won't have to worry about it in the postseason.

Major League Baseball is back this week, and this year, the sport has a slate of new rules — all aimed at speeding up games. The hope is that if they’re shorter, they’ll attract more fans to the ...

Learn from our comprehensive list of baseball rules and how the game of baseball is structured-from past to present. How many baseball games are in a season? The baseball season can be described as a ...

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball’s new rules designed to speed pace of play and encourage more action seem to be working through the first 1 1/2 weeks of the season. Batting average is up 16 points, ...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Bold decisions to change Major League Baseball’s longstanding rules quickened the pace of games and revived the popularity of stealing bases over the last few years. A ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) – Beginning next year, umpires will no longer be able to forfeit a game based on spectators’ behavior, and one-way communication devices between the catcher and a coach will ...

Major League Baseball announced Tuesday it closed its investigation into the largest baseball gambling story in generations; separately the league issued a permanent ban of a player for placing 231 ...

Sign up for the On Point newsletter here. Major League Baseball has new rules. "This is the most fundamental change to the in-field game in baseball since integration ...

Players are stealing more bases, more balls are falling for hits and games are nearly 30 minutes faster than they were last year. Like them or not, the rules are accomplishing their goals.

Tomorrow is opening day in Major League Baseball, a fine time as any to get all gooey about our national pastime. Hope springs eternal, and all that jazz. Nostalgia rules the day. Every team, at this ...