With a new rule already in place, MLB front offices are cracking down on another tiny way to get an advantage.

In a stunning and controversial move, Major League Baseball announced last week that game broadcasts will no longer display whether a pitch is ruled a ball or a strike, coinciding with the full implementation of the Automated Ball-Strike (ABS) system.

Virtually every Major League pitcher throws a combination of pitches, with starting pitchers often owning an arsenal of three or more offerings. Relief pitchers, who infrequently face the same batter more than once in a game, have historically succeeded with the help of one or two pitch types that are thrown with maximum effort.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MLB games have a long history of ceremonial first pitches, from presidents to actors who once played president, like Harrison Ford back in 2013 (Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Diego Padres).

Major League Baseball's sportsbook partners have set a $200 betting limit for wagers on individual pitches and banned them in parlays in the wake of a pitch-fixing scandal, MLB said on Monday. DraftKings and FanDuel, the two largest United States ...

MLB announced that prominent U.S. sportsbook operators are establishing a nationwide $200 betting limit on baseball prop wagers focused on individual pitches in the wake of the indictment of Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz for ...

Major League Baseball said its authorized gaming operators will cap bets on individual pitches at $200 and exclude them from parlays, a day after two Cleveland Guardians were indicted and accused of rigging pitches at the behest of gamblers. MLB said ...