The Red Sox will be using UV disinfecting robots to keep Fenway Park safe and clean as it welcomes fans back this season. The organization partnered with the company Surfacide, which will employ the robots that are built with UV-C light energy to kill deadly virus and is "scientifically validated to inactivate coronavirus–the family of virus that make up SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19," according to a press release. Fans will see a trio of robots around the ballpark as they're allowed to return to games beginning with Opening Day on April 1. Fenway will welcome back fans at a 12 percent capacity, which is about 4,500 fans. "A lot of time and consideration went into outlining our heightened sanitation procedures for the upcoming season and our partnership with Surfacide is an important part of those protocols," said Jonathan Lister, Red Sox Vice President of Facilities Management, in a statement.

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Many challenges in natural language processing require generating text, including language translation, dialogue generation, and speech recognition. For all of these problems, text generation becomes more difficult as the text becomes longer. Current language models often struggle to keep track of coherence for long pieces of text. Here, we attempt to have the model construct and use an outline of the text it generates to keep it focused. We find that the usage of an outline improves perplexity. We do not find that using the outline improves human evaluation over a simpler baseline, revealing a discrepancy in perplexity and human perception. Similarly, hierarchical generation is not found to improve human evaluation scores.

Old school, new school: The Tampa Bay Rays have two pitchers who have started 20 games this year. One is their ace, Blake Snell, whose 2.03 earned-run average ranks second in the American League. The other is Ryne Stanek, a reliever turned “opener” — in his case, a right-hander who works the first inning or so, followed by a left-hander. In a year in which the Rays lost starters Anthony Banda, Jose DeLeon and Brent Honeywell to Tommy John surgery and traded starters Chris Archer and Nathan Eovaldi, the team leads the AL in ERA since May 19, when Sergio Romo debuted as Tampa Bay’s first “opener.” There is no pitching statistic more derided in sabermetrics than wins for a pitcher.

A drone dropped into the American League Championship Series before the first pitch was even thrown. Indians starter Trevor Bauer cut open his right pinkie while fixing one of the hovering objects he likes to build and fly. Cleveland Manager Terry Francona, who has had to juggle his rotation for weeks because of injuries, managed to keep a sense of humor about the latest -- and by far the strangest -- setback. "'It's kind of self-explanatory," Francona quipped at the start of his news conference. "Probably everybody in here probably at some point or another had a drone-related problem."

Baseball is a first step toward this goal.

Men typically communicate with computers in a variety of artificial,stylized, unambiguous languages that are better adapted to the machinethan to the man. For convenience and speed, many future computercenteredsystems will require men to communicate with computers innatural language. The business executive, the military commander, and thescientist need to ask questions of the computer in ordinary English, andto have the computer answer the questions directly. Baseball is a first steptoward this goal.Proc. Western Joint Computer Conference 19:555-570.