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. On June 1, holding a 4–3 lead in the ...

National Slider Day might be a made-up holiday, but this deal is very real. On the heels of National Buttermilk Biscuit Day, which brought us heart-shaped biscuits from Popeyes and Cheddar Bay Biscuit ...

After a miserable 2025 season, Tanner Scott of the Dodgers is back to being dominant. He has the highest chase rate in Major League Baseball, and the key is a better, tighter slider. Here's the slider ...

LOS ANGELES — Clayton Kershaw was laboring in pursuit of his 3,000th strikeout. His pitch count soaring, he was down to the last batter he would face, needing one more swing and miss to become the ...

Bad news first: You will have a hard time bragging about banging out a slider workout. In the era of at-home pandemic fitness, if you’ve got a Peloton bike or somehow got ahead of the great kettlebell ...

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TAMPA — There’s a new slider sweeping Yankeetown. It’s often thrown with a two-seam grip, works the horizontal plane more than a typical slider does, and is developed to play off of true two-seam ...

Perhaps the newest of the breaking pitches is one called the slider, which almost every pitcher uses these days. The late George Blaeholder is generally credited with the development of the pitch in ...