When my oldest son jumped to 12U baseball, we both noticed one glaring difference about the new field he'd be playing on -- the pitching mound was farther away from home plate. At first, he seemed a little intimidated by the extra feet from the 10U pitching distance. But it only took a couple of throws from the new mound distance to calm his fears. It's great to know the pitching distances by age if your young player loves pitching and plays long enough. I'll cover them in this article, along with how to measure them so your backyard sessions are as realistic as possible. What is the pitching distance for MLB? Today, the pitching rubber in all 30 MLB ballparks is the same distance from home plate that it has been since 1893: 60 feet 6 inches. But getting to that distance took some tinkering . First, the earliest mounds weren't actually raised or round but flat boxes 45 feet away from home plate, a distance officially established in 1857. As pitchers dominated more and