Baseball season is almost here — Opening Day is Thursday — and come with it is a major new update to Major League Baseball ’s iPad app , the $ 15 MLB.com At Bat 11.Macworldgot an sole first look at the raw rendering of the app , which is now available in the App Store . ( We also dumbfound a look inside MLB ’s digital nerve centre . )
The app has acquire a major makeover . Most notably , live GameDay update no longer take station in a generic baseball stadium . rather , the app has custom graphics represent every major - league park , good manners of lifelike assets take over from Sony ’s MLB 11 The Show video game , as well as batters assume a squad ’s official home base or road uniform . So when you ’re ascertain a game accept seat in San Francisco ’s AT&T Park or Boston ’s venerable Fenway Park , you ’ll see that car park in the background .
There are more ocular change , too : The overall design of the app has been simplified , while the scoreboard has been reworked with a new block - letter typeface and background inset remindful of the script - operated scoreboard of yore . The app also is using more elaborate pitch - by - pitch shot data point good manners of Major League Baseball ’s in - stadium sales pitch - trailing data solicitation system . Hitting a signboard on the outfield wall does not win you a novel suit , however .
When the iPad was announced last year , one of the few apps display during the launch issue was MLB At Bat . MLB Advanced Media had to struggle its growing schedule to get that app ( as well as its iPhone eq ) ready for Opening Day 2010 . This year scar the first time that the iPad app has been able to get a full offseason ’s worth of development nidus , and it marks a bounteous stone’s throw ahead from last year ’s edition .
Like last class , MLB.com At Bat 11 for iPad ( like its iPhone counterpart ) comes with live GameDay status selective information , access to live home and away audio stream for every biz , and access to occasional innocent live TV streams . ratifier to the MLB.tv streaming - television parcel will also get admission to live game television , though as with all MLB picture packages , local teams are blacked out .
There ’s a lot more going on under the hood at MLB . As we get closer to Opening Day , stay tuned toMacworldfor more detail on MLB.com ’s Io apps and what bechance behind the scenes at the conference ’s New York City multimedia hub .
