Balls and Strikes media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Balls and Strikes on the left. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Balls and Strikes biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Balls and Strikes on the left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Balls and Strikes left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Balls and Strikes on the left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Balls and Strikes reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Balls and Strikes are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Balls and Strikes has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Balls and Strikes’s own report linked underneath.
House Republicans have elected Jim Jordan as their new minority leader. Meanwhile, President Trump is pressing the Senate to confirm 161 nominations, including 25 federal judges, before Democrats take control in January.
Balls and Strikes reported it asSenate Republicans Are Sprinting to Confirm Trump Judges While They Still Can (opens Balls and Strikes in a new tab)
Mary Peltola and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee have filed a motion to block a Trump administration lawsuit. The federal action seeks to prevent Alaska from certifying its U.S. Senate election results if incumbent Dan Sullivan loses, citing voter confusion.
Balls and Strikes reported it asThe Alaska Senate Race Lawsuit Might Contain the Trump DOJ’s Stupidest Legal Argument Yet (opens Balls and Strikes in a new tab)
During a civil‑rights lecture at the University of the District of Columbia law school, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson condemned the Supreme Court’s emergency docket as problematic, citing institutional costs and a privileged fast‑track that favours certain litigants. No right‑rated outlet covered the remarks.
Balls and Strikes reported it asKetanji Brown Jackson Is Getting Tired of the Supreme Court’s Shadow Docket Abuses (opens Balls and Strikes in a new tab)
The Trump administration is appealing a judge's decision that blocked an executive order limiting mail voting before the midterm elections. The order could allow the Postal Service to refuse ballots from states not submitting eligible voter lists or following a uniform envelope style.
Balls and Strikes reported it asHow the Supreme Court Helps Trump Run Out the Clock (opens Balls and Strikes in a new tab)
The Senate confirmed Todd Blanche as US Attorney General by a 50-49 vote on 9 August 2026, with Republican Senator Bill Cassidy casting the deciding vote. Cassidy said he had concerns about Blanche’s commitment to the Constitution but cited positive aspects of his record.
Balls and Strikes reported it asThe Justice Department Is a Glorified Pro-Trump Law Firm Now (opens Balls and Strikes in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MedialeftCheck it
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Mixed factuality
- Ad Fontes MediamixedCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Balls and Strikes.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- ballsandstrikes.org
- Seen publishing on
- ballsandstrikes.org
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 14 August 2026
4 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Balls and Strikes ran the story anyway.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Balls and Strikes: its report arrived a median of 4 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 12 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 11 November 2026. Ratings pulled 13 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Balls and Strikes, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Balls and Strikes publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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