The WASHINGTON POST writes under the header, "Robot umpires would make baseball worse." The "creep toward robot umps often appears inevitable, especially after a dizzying, draining night of high-stakes baseball" like Tuesday's playoff action. But "is the fairest version of baseball the best version of baseball?" Pieces of the game "would be lost, and aspects of the pitcher-hitter confrontation would be changed for the worse." Baseball is "better off living with missed calls, as it has for 150 years, than altering the sport in ways it may not even see coming."
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