Two outs, two strikes. Tying run on second. Gerrit Cole on the bump. You’re pinch-hitting, you tell yourself in the batting cage. The crucial pitch is on the way — just as soon as it matriculates its ...

TAMPA, Fla. – Nestor Cortes got behind the plate in a batting cage and watched an 8-foot-high, 1,200-pound robot spit out fastballs, cutters and sweepers just like the ones spinning off the fingertips ...

The Miami Marlins are revolutionizing their batting practice with a high-tech pitching machine called Trajekt, designed to simulate real-life pitchers with pinpoint accuracy. The state-of-the-art ...

The Trajekt Arc pitching machine uses baseball’s high-tech data to mimic the way balls break from every big league pitcher and has been approved by Major League Baseball for in-game use this year in ...