Batting helmets are ready for a West Greene High School girls softball game. The batting helmet was an innovation of former Pittsburgh Pirates general manager Branch Rickey. Washington & Jefferson’s ...

WASHINGTON — In a sport of bats and balls and gloves, the most critical piece of equipment in the opening days of the Mets’ new season has been a small piece of plastic invented by a surgeon in ...

It's called a C-Flap – that extra piece on a baseball helmet, designed to protect the batter's jaw on the side facing the pitcher. More and more Major Leaguers are using these safer helmets, though ...

It’s safe to say baseball fans aren’t too happy with MLB’s new batting helmets that come with ads. The league announced a deal last month with Strauss, a German workwear apparel company, to put the ...

This postseason is bringing yet another new wrinkle to Major League Baseball that may rankle some purists — advertisements on players’ batting helmets. As part of a multiyear deal announced Friday, ...

NEW YORK — Brandon Nimmo did not have time to react or comprehend what had just occurred. In the bottom of the third inning on Friday night, a 91-mph first-pitch fastball from the Giants' Kyle ...

When Major League Baseball players set up to the plate for postseason games next month, their batting helmets will all be sporting a new logo for the first time. After introducing ads on jersey ...