Computers are going to start writing about mi**r league baseball
 

Computers are going to start writing about mi**r league baseball
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"Jayson Aqui** tossed a three-hit shutout and Quincy Latimore had three hits and two RBI, as the Bowie Baysox topped the Akron RubberDucks 6-0 in the first game of a doubleheader on Sunday."

That's the kind of straight-ahead, **-**nsense, get-the-new-upfront lede that comes from a professional journalist at the Associated Press.

This particular lede, however, was written by a computer. (You can read the rest of the story at the bottom.)

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