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MLB At Bat App Debuts Beta Of Voice Commands For Stat Queries

In baseball banter everywhere from bleacher seats to barrooms everywhere in between, home runs are celebrated as homers, dingers, bombs and long balls. The pinstriped uniforms of New York’s American League team may say Yankees, but the club is often known as the Yanks, the Bronx Bombers and — now that Aaron Judge, Gary Sanchez and friends have joined the lineup — the Baby Bombers, too.

When Major League Baseball Advanced Media set about implementing a voice-activated command for its bestselling app — the Ask At Bat featured debuted this postseason — there was a concerted effort to retain the sport’s rich and colloquial vernacular.