
State of the art these days could mean AI. It could mean an electric motor that doesn’t cause range anxiety. It could mean a toaster with a “touch screen interface.” Yeah, that’s actually a thing. In baseball, it means how the Los Angeles Dodgers sent their bitter rivals, the San Diego Padres, home for the winter.
State of the art means a pitching performance that was both historic and, if you happen to work in MLB headquarters, scary.