The knuckleball has long been one of baseball’s most esteemed and bizarre traditions. Now it is nearing extinction. This year, major league pitchers have thrown only 15 knuckleballs. Those have come ...

The knuckleball has returned to Major League Baseball. From 2020-22, there were only 111 knuckleballs thrown league-wide, many by position players messing around during pitching appearances.

Teams haven't typically tried to develop knuckleballers and players haven't usually wanted to throw the pitch. But now the Baltimore Orioles are... This sports news got our attention this week: The ...

Ed. Note: On Thursday, the SI national desk had planned a roundtable feature on "building the perfect pitcher" (Verlander's heat, Kershaw's curve, etc.). In exchange, we offer a cheeky piece on the ...

San Diego Padres pitcher Matt Waldron is part of a dying breed. When he made his big league debut last season, he was the MLB first pitcher since 2019 to have a knuckleball as part of his arsenal.

The tightknit knuckleball community includes Hall of Famer Phil Niekro, 2012 NL Cy Young Award winner R.A. Dickey and two-time World Series champion Tim Wakefield. They showed that, if mastered, the ...

That quote could be attributed to six Philadelphia Eagles players who watched or experienced their team’s first brutal barrage of knuckleball kickoffs in Sunday’s comeback win over the Los Angeles ...

One of the more underrated situations in baseball comes when a team puts in a position player to pitch. The game is almost always lopsided, and the losing team is just trying to preserve its bullpen.

Wednesday afternoon was the first time the Phillies faced a knuckle-baller in nearly seven years — prior to the arrival of every position player on the roster — and it showed in a series-ending 5-2 ...