Baseball Field Guide

The easiest way to understand the complex rules of Major League Baseball.

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

MLB umpires missed over 21,000 balls & strikes calls during the 2023 regular season. It was their best season ever.

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Julio Teherán, Balk 🧐

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Catcher legally blocks the plate? See what you think. #baseball #MLB #MajorLeagueBaseball #sports https://t.co/RYCrzK74Yj

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Joey Votto should NOT have been awarded first base here.

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The pitches CB Bucknor called strikes today...

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Shohei Ohtani is now leading the big leagues in home runs and this has officially become completely ridiculous.
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Thanks @TomHoffarth!
“Blue-ribbon work. If the book isn’t dog-eared, bookmarked with adhesive note pages, highlighted with yellow marker and held together with paperclips by its fifth use, you aren’t handling it properly.” #baseball #MLB #Sports
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He's out.

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ever seen an infielder do this before? 👇

[Baseball Field Guide @baseballfield]

Cracking down on the sticky stuff! Including a $5k fine. Sorry Max. #baseball #MLB #MajorLeagueBaseball #sports https://t.co/L6Ozb1LGyy

[Codify @CodifyBaseball]

About ten years ago, MLB tested out the idea of allowing each team to pick one time in each game where a batter could swing an invisible bat and hit a home run.

Some people loved it but most thought it was really stupid.

[Baseball Field Guide @baseballfield]

They're here!!! (Or, at least my advance copies arrived.) #baseball #MLB #MajorLeagueBaseball #sports @LGLiterary

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On the left: Phil Bickford is called for a balk.
On the right (next pitch): he isn't called for a balk.

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We're excited to announce that the publication date for Baseball Field Guide has been moved to April 25 - two weeks earlier than expected. Updated with 16 new pages to cover all the rules, including MLB's newest rules. https://t.co/Dd8kuNbCIa #BaseBall #MLB #MajorLeagueBaseball

[Baseball Field Guide @baseballfield]

We're excited to announce that the 4th Edition of the 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘍𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦, 𝘈𝘯 𝘐𝘯-𝘋𝘦𝘱𝘵𝘩 𝘐𝘭𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘎𝘶𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘦𝘵𝘦 𝘙𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘢𝘴𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘭𝘭, will be on the shelves and available online May 2 2023!

[Baseball Field Guide @baseballfield]

There are no rules in Major League Baseball requiring fielders to stand in specific positions (unless they are interfering or blocking something.) Here's Codify's post on what to do about Mickey Mantle.

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The "Mantle Shift" of the A's in the 1950's. @_dadler

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Together, we are all... https://t.co/R5FnT4kv1I

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32 years ago today, Kevin Mitchell did something completely ridiculous.

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51 MPH in the big leagues. #Greinke

[ESPN @espn]

Cody Bellinger hit a home run with Justin Turner on base, but Turner thought it was caught for an out and ran back to first base.

Bellinger passed Turner on the bases and was ruled out.

The home run counted for one run instead of two.