Braxton Ashcraft decided to flip the script on his pitch usage against the Philadelphia Phillies, throwing his sinker five times more than his four-seam fastball. The intention was for the sinker to ...

Nationals right-hander Joe Ross had trouble with his control and the Mets hit him well in a 7-3 loss on Monday afternoon. The Mets tallied two runs in the second and five runs in the fourth off Ross.

The Phillies' Zack Wheeler posted the highest mark among those with 135 or more IP, with new Blue Jay Dylan Cease ranking third despite ordinary mainstream numbers.

Pitching is about keeping hitters guessing -- and about walking the line between overusing certain pitches to the point of predictability and underusing others that have quietly confounded opponents ...

The art of pitching can be a difficult thing for a layman to understand. Even those of us who write about and study the game closely can miss key elements to what makes a pitcher effective. When it ...