Tune into baseball for long enough in 2022 and you’re almost assured to come across an unfamiliar term. The “sweeper” is the newest weapon being deployed against MLB hitters. It is revitalizing the ...

Floor dusters and sweepers are great for collecting dust and dirt from your floors. However, disposable pads create a lot of trash and the cost of regular replacements can quickly add up. So, say ...

Sent in to preserve a 1-0 lead against Atlanta on May 27, Phillies reliever Orion Kerkering turned to his trusted weapon: the sweeper. The first he threw to Ronald Acuña Jr. had the star swinging ...

To some within the Yankees, it was just a tweaked slider. Some viewed it as a sweeping slider. At one point, the organization dubbed it a “whirly,” acknowledging it was a new offering altogether. The ...

PHOENIX (AP) — Bob Melvin was talking about the improvement of Padres reliever Steven Wilson, when the San Diego skipper dropped in some cool-kid lingo that's making the rounds in Major League ...

The sweeper — a horizontal slider — had long been lumped in with other breaking balls. Thanks to a change in the Statcast system, it is suddenly its own thing. Clarke Schmidt is one of several Yankees ...

When it comes to finding the coolest and/or weirdest EVs in China for the Awesomely Weird Alibaba Electric Vehicle of the Week column, I’ve never shied away from work vehicles. Whether that’s tiny ...

A reader from the San Francisco Bay area saw our recent story on the city’s bikeway-sized street sweeper and wanted us to know he’s taking the idea a few steps further. Pierre Lermant has a background ...

Welcome to The Opener, where every weekday morning during the regular season you’ll get a fresh, topical story to start your day from one of SI.com’s MLB writers. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — Corey Kluber ...