Major League Baseball is restricting iPad usage in dugouts to prevent artificial intelligence from influencing decisions.

With the new pitch clock showing early success at speeding up the sport, baseball’s brain trust is already trying to figure out what might come next in its efforts to make the games more exciting and keep them moving along.

Major League Baseball has adopted its first pitch clock, limits on defensive shifts and larger bases for next season in an effort to shorten games and increase offense in a tradition-bound sport.

Negotiators for locked-out players and Major League Baseball bargained past midnight for the second time in a week, and Commissioner Rob Manfred’s Tuesday deadline to reach a deal preserving a 162-game season passed with no announcement.

Major League Baseball reacted angrily to the latest offer by locked-out players when bargaining to end the lockout resumed, accusing the union of backtracking and showing no sign of a breakthrough to get the derailed season back on track.

Locked-out Major League Baseball players removed the first of three major obstacles to a labor contract, withdrawing their proposal for more liberalized free agency when the sides met face-to-face for the first time since the management lockout began Dec. 1.

Major League Baseball wants to see if moving back the pitcher’s mound will increase offense.