WHIP – walks plus hits per inning pitched – is one of the most widely-used pitching stats in baseball.. The number measures how many baserunners a pitcher allows on average and is a good ...

Harrison Bader hit his second home run of the game in the bottom of the ninth inning to give the Minnesota Twins a 4-3 ...

When it comes to approximating a successful pitching campaign in Major League Baseball, the traditional measurements are wins, losses, earned run average (ERA), walks-plus-hits per innings pitched ...

I tend to view WHIP, or walks plus hits per innings pitched, as my preferred method for gauging pitching quality. Baseball can be both easy and difficult to quantify as some statistics carry a lot ...

The walks lead to high pitch counts that preclude him from going deeper into games. Leiter threw 89 pitches — an average of 22.3 per inning — on Friday. Over the four-stretch start, he’s ...

Here is the state of the ace as this baseball season hits its stride: Gerrit Cole of the New York Yankees, who led the American League in ERA, innings pitched and walks and hits per inning pitched ...

Davis Schneider hit a two-out, two-run home run off Kyle Nicolas to lift the Toronto Blue Jays to a 5-3 walk-off win in the 14th inning to end a three-hour, 46-minute marathon Friday night at ...

The Angels defeated NL West rival Seattle 6-5 in 10 innings on a walk-off ... It also surpassed the fastest pitch Joyce had thrown in MLB, as he hit 103.9 ... but that is down 8.1 walks-per-nine ...