Umpires call it a train wreck, a play that results in a horrific collision through no fault of the baserunner or fielder. No interference or obstruction is called. It's considered "just baseball" and ...

Buster Posey's injury gives some second thoughts about home-plate hits. May 28, 2011— -- It's one of the most dramatic and violent plays in baseball: The collision between a base-runner trying to ...

Certain physicality has been taken out of modern day baseball, but Ian Happ's collision with Colson Montgomery in Sunday's game between the White Sox and Cubs was legal. CHICAGO –– Ian Happ running ...

Oregon’s Aroz, right, slides into Utah Valley catcher Strong at the plate in the eighth inning of the Eugene NCAA Regional at PK Park. / Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ...

A scary moment unfolded in the baseball quarterfinals of the SEC Tournament between the Arkansas Razorbacks and Ole Miss Rebels at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in Alabama. The play in question unfolded ...

Sometimes baseball breaks your heart with a ninth-inning rally. Other times, it literally breaks your face against a metal scoreboard. Sunday afternoon in Houston, Los Angeles Angels Outfielder Taylor ...

NEW YORK — Rather than ban home plate collisions outright, Major League Baseball and its players adopted a rule limiting them this season. In what both sides said was a one-year experiment, the rule ...

Major League Baseball’s rules committee has voted to ban home plate collisions, MLB Rules Committee Chairman and New York Mets General Manager Sandy Alderson announced Wednesday. Alderson said the ...

CHICAGO –– Ian Happ running through Colson Montgomery may have resembled a football play more than a baseball play to some, given the way physical collisions have largely been removed from MLB. But in ...