The trend toward lab-grown pitches ( tweak their shape and spin) has overtaken pure velocity as the guiding force of pitching. Most pitchers now want to move the ball to both glove side and arm side.

San Diego Padres star Fernando Tatis Jr. will be in the lineup for the series opener against the Kansas City Royals Friday.

Benches cleared in the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. San Diego Padres game after Fernando Tatis gets hit with pitch.

The San Diego Padres-Los Angeles Dodgers rivalry intensified once again as the benches cleared in the ninth inning of ...

In all, 10 total batters were hit in those seven games, including eight in the just-concluded four-game set. Hostilities ...

Fernando Tatis Jr., Manny Machado and Xander Bogarts discuss Tatis' hit by pitch against the Dodgers, having each others ...

A testy four-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres culminated in a ninth-inning brawl Thursday, ...

With one out, Fernando Tatis Jr. was hit by a pitch and went down in pain. Right away, Padres manager Mike Shildt ran out ...

There's some bad blood between the San Diego Padres and the Los Angeles Dodgers, as the California teams just played seven games in the span of 11 days, with the former getting the ...

The San Diego Padres and Los Angeles Dodgers concluded a stretch of playing seven games in 11 days with seemingly heightened ...

Tensions boiled over between the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres as benches cleared after Fernando Tatis Jr. was drilled by a pitch.

After watching Fernando Tatis Jr. in clear pain following the hit-by-pitch, Manny Machado didn’t stay silent — delivering a ...