There’s been a lot of interest in the gyroball this year. You might want to check out Jeff Passan’s great article on Yahoo, but generally speaking, more people now know what a gyroball is. Or I ...

The sweeper — a horizontal slider — had long been lumped in with other breaking balls. Thanks to a change in the Statcast system, it is suddenly its own thing. Clarke Schmidt is one of several Yankees ...

Download the MP3 audio version of this story here, or sign up for The Explainer’s free daily podcast on iTunes. The pitch he invented gets its name from its spin, which is like that of a football ...

Sen. Barack Obama, in a stepped-up effort at confronting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton more directly and forcefully, said yesterday that he would unveil his much anticipated gyro political pitch.

There’s a convincing argument that righthander Sam Bachman has the loudest pure stuff of any college pitcher in the 2021 MLB Draft. And in a lot of ways, Bachman is modern pitching development ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — STMicroelectronics today (June 8) became the second company to field a pitch-and-yaw microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based gyroscope, following a similar announcement in late ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — What is claimed as the first pitch-and-yaw MEMS gyroscope is said to be able to sense the two axes used by remote controls and baton-shaped game controllers like the Wii, creating a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It was December 2017 when Triple-A Albuquerque reliever Mitch Horacek, stuck in a minor league rut in the Orioles organization, awoke to news in his Denver ...