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MLB to Use Crowd Noise from MLB The Show for Fanless Games During Pandemic

Baseball fans who play plenty of MLB: The Show will hear some familiar sounds when the season begins later this month.

With fans prohibited from attending games, Major League Baseball will give stadium sound engineers access to about 75 sound effects from the video game to pump into contests.

The crowd noises—cheers, groans, boos and all—were recorded during real games over multiple seasons by San Diego Studios.

Some teams have already begun experimenting with the noise during intrasquad games.

"There was some reticence when you first talk about crowd noise in an empty ballpark because you don't want to do something that is distracting," MLB executive vice president for strategy, technology and innovation Chris Marinak told the Associated Press.