![]() ![]() ``I want to say right off the bat we had nothing to do with Billy Hatcher the other night,'' punned Jim Kay, SMS vice-president of finance at a news conference last week. The firm's offer was made hours before the bat Houston Astro Billy Hatcher was using in a game with Chicago last Tuesday exploded upon impact with the ball, revealing a drill hole that had been filled with cork. ![]() In the wake of a summer of corked bats, Scientific Measurement Systems last week offered the use of its gamma-ray scanning process to evaluate any bats about which the question of tampering has been raised. And since the two leagues declined to take up an Austin hightech firm on a recent offer, ``tomography'' - the technique of creating cross-sectional images of an object - most likely won't become a common part of the baseball lexicon. Most major league hitters probably don't even know the bat they use has a tomography. ![]()
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