The MLB app’s best feature is a 30-second delay

When my household quit cable four years ago and I lost access to Seattle Mariners games on TV, I started streaming the radio broadcast on the Google Home speaker in my kitchen. Honestly? Baseball on the radio rules. You get to walk around and do stuff to the pleasant background sounds of the crowd. Sometimes you hear the crack of Cal Raleigh’s bat hammering the ball into the stands one or 60 times. There’s just one problem: spoilers.

I use the MLB app for live scores, which is especially handy to complement an audio-only game. I don’t have to wait for the announcer to get around to repeating how many outs there are; I can just glance at my …

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