When Cincinnati Reds catcher Jose Trevino recorded the slowest pitch of the 2025 MLB season July 8 against the Miami Marlins, he was trying to break the record of a pitch he received in 2021, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The Eephus pitch is one of baseball’s most ...

A small-town baseball game stretches on into the night in Carson Lund's adorably existential, off-kilter take on the sports movie. Their future, it should also be pointed out, is our past: Lund sets ...

The title Eephus (now streaming on Mubi) isn’t just a nonsense word – it’s a baseball reference obscure enough to zing, rather ironically, right by casual fans like a 90 mph fastball. Dating back ...

Like forbidden love and corruption, the sports world is a natural subject for movies. The conflict is ingrained — two sides vying for one victory. And there’s drama. Rocky lasts 15 rounds with the ...

Call her an actor-singer-pitcher. Once again proving there's not much she can't do, Jennifer Hudson added a perfect first pitch ahead of the Kansas City Royals game on Tuesday to a résumé that already ...

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. In this ...

The Gist: Fade in: The dew evaporates on Soldiers Field in Douglas, Massachusetts, a real-life field in a real-life town, pop. 9,000 or so. The world’s weariest radio DJ reads the news, including a ...