When sliding into a base in an attempt to break up a double play, a runner has to make a "bona fide slide." Such is defined as the runner making contact with the ground before reaching the base, being ...

Welcome to Snyder's Soapbox! Here I pontificate about a matter related to Major League Baseball on a weekly basis. Some of the topics will be pressing matters, some might seem insignificant in the ...

Boston Red Sox’s Jacoby Ellsbury reacts sliding back to first on a first-inning pickoff in a spring training baseball game against the Philadelphia Phillies in Clearwater, Fla., Sunday, March 24, 2013 ...

Lakeland, Fla. — The way Brad Ausmus and Ian Kinsler see it, the league didn’t so much redefine what constitutes a legal slide as organize and clarify the definition on one. “It sounds like they’re ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — The double play is an art form. If performed with flair and quick timing, the turning, feeding, twirling and jumping looks more like a ...