Live sports are typically among the higher-rated offerings on television, but scripted series revolving around the subject often don’t fare as well. Which is a shame, because the new baseball drama “Pitch,” from Fox, is a show that deserves to be seen.
Sadly, in 2016 a story of a female who plays professional baseball has to be described as “groundbreaking” simply for the fact that it hasn’t yet happened in real life. And so the pilot mirrors reality by treating the situation as the phenomenon that it is. When Ginny Baker (Kylie Bunbury) is called up from the minors to make her big league debut, she not only has to face the pressure of becoming the first professional female player, but she also has to make her start on the mound–one of the most pressure-filled positions in the