With pennant races in full swing and the postseason approaching , Major League Baseball has spruced up its iPhone app with ameliorate in - game computer graphic , more in - app multimedia , and expand societal networking options .
The revampedMLB.com At Bat 11debuted this week in the App Store , with features that should appeal to fans of the league ’s fantastic iPad app . Whereas the app antecedently featuredgeneric in - gamegraphics portray a hitter ’s eyeshot and smash reckoning — something akin to a mid-1990s Sega video secret plan — that feature article has been updated with the iPad app ’s attractively rendered graphics providing realistic , detailed views of the park , uniforms , and histrion - specific stumble stances . The update iPhone app looks much better than its predecessors .
But there ’s also flesh out functionality . Post - gamy wraps — which antecedently featured just a story and boxful scores — now include embedded television highlights from the contest . And for baseball fans who actually go to the approximate range , the updated app now include the power to check in via Foursquare . The app also add up expanded team and player information .
Additionally , both the iPhone and iPad app were upgrade this workweek to address an ongoing problem : The feature that lets user mind to out - of - market game radio broadcasts has been spotty , at best , throughout the summer . Users can now prefer between three dissimilar audio data formatting — Shoutcast Default , Shoutcast Alternate , and HTTP survive Streaming — to score the best probability of actually hear their teams play .
MLB.com At Bat 11 cost $ 7 , and is compatible with any gadget run iOS 4.0 or later .
