Umpires call it a train wreck, a play that results in a horrific collision through no fault of the baserunner or fielder. No interference or obstruction is called. It's considered "just baseball" and ...

CHICAGO –– Ian Happ running through Colson Montgomery may have resembled a football play more than a baseball play to some, given the way physical collisions have largely been removed from MLB. But in ...

Buster Posey's injury gives some second thoughts about home-plate hits. May 28, 2011— -- It's one of the most dramatic and violent plays in baseball: The collision between a base-runner trying to ...

Certain physicality has been taken out of modern day baseball, but Ian Happ's collision with Colson Montgomery in Sunday's game between the White Sox and Cubs was legal. CHICAGO –– Ian Happ running ...

Sometimes baseball breaks your heart with a ninth-inning rally. Other times, it literally breaks your face against a metal scoreboard. Sunday afternoon in Houston, Los Angeles Angels Outfielder Taylor ...

Oregon’s Aroz, right, slides into Utah Valley catcher Strong at the plate in the eighth inning of the Eugene NCAA Regional at PK Park. / Chris Pietsch/The Register-Guard / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn ...