http://assets.espn.go.com/i/tvlistings/tv_espn_original.gif en-us 10 ESPN Inc. http://espn.go.com/ Copyright 2010 ESPN Inc. When is a home run not a home run? How many pitching changes can you fit on the head of a pin? For answers to these and other baseball rules questions, just 'Ask The Ump!']]> May 22, 2013 05:25:57 PDT It was challenging rooting for the Mariners in their early years. Well, actually, with seven last-place seasons in the past nine years, no postseas...]]> May 17, 2013 05:15:14 PDT CHICAGO -- Baseball players aren't as tough as football players. When it rains, baseball players dash for cover in the dugout (unless the commissio...]]> May 10, 2013 08:46:21 PDT What do you get when you cross a football player with a pitcher? You get one tough S.O.B. You get the Cubs' Jeff Samardzija, bloody finger and all.]]> May 09, 2013 09:37:16 PDT Jose Altuve just doesn't measure up to every other player in the majors. But the shortest man in the game sure does produce for the Astros.]]> April 30, 2013 14:59:47 PDT The park. It's where we take our baseball vows. With the debut of a new column called 'A Walk In The Park,' we celebrate (and sometimes castigate) the stadiums in which we watch the national pastime.]]> April 29, 2013 08:27:32 PDT When a fight results in an injury that might sideline Zack Greinke for months, it's time for an Off Base refresher on the proper way to brawl in baseball.]]> April 16, 2013 08:57:09 PDT Mariners fan Johnny Turk didn't bring his glove to the game the other night. But at least he had a beer cup for that foul ball.]]> April 12, 2013 05:15:30 PDT Jackie Robinson's wife, Rachel, and daughter, Sharon, supported him as he faced the racism depicted in "42," and decades later they are still working to preserve his legacy.]]> April 11, 2013 10:56:55 PDT For all the hundreds of thousands of words devoted to projecting the 2013 Major League Baseball season, the best preview contained not a single line o...]]> April 11, 2013 03:01:37 PDT A baseball-loving Bay Area native, artist Mark Ulriksen has composed numerous pieces based on our national pastime -- many for the cover of The New Yo...]]> April 11, 2013 03:02:17 PDT It was genius 75 years ago, and the Abbott and Costello skit is just as brilliant today. "Who's on first." "I don't know." (All together now.) "He's on third."]]> April 08, 2013 09:36:44 PDT One of the negative aspects to baseball is that it takes a lot of players, some equipment and a diamond to play a game. And, if you're a major leaguer...]]> April 05, 2013 11:00:23 PDT Every number tells a story of the 2013 season in this man's baseball game. (Now you know: Off Base is running numbers.)]]> April 02, 2013 09:50:29 PDT Yes, those are dark clouds hanging over the Yankees and the Red Sox as the 2013 seasons gets under way. But that means silver linings for the rest of baseball!]]> March 26, 2013 11:30:56 PDT