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A small, but notable moment in baseball history occurred this week. In a US minor-league game between the San Rafael Pacifics and Vallejo Admirals, the home plate umpire did not call balls and strikes. Instead, a computerized video system was used to make the determinations, which were relayed by the game's announcer to the crowd cheering on the home team—and checking out the system's performance—at Albert Park in San Rafael, California.
The system, Pitchf/x from Chicago-based Sportvision, isn't new to baseball. It already provides data for evaluating players and umpires, and it helps TV viewers see where a pitch lands relative to the strike zone. But on July 28 it was used to make actual calls, marking the first time that's happened in professional baseball.
Maybe if Major League Baseball can save money on umpires they can lower ticket prices.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bziman on Sunday August 02 2015, @05:29AM
Okay, so aside from my critique of the commentary, I really think that if you have "So and so writes:" followed by a blockquote, it is reasonable for me to assume that only the blockquote is attributable to so-and-so and that anything outside the blockquote is the editor. I think I've read that wrong since the very beginning. Is none of the non-blockquoted text the editor?? Oh crap. That is something I strongly urge you to change...