PITCH: Those Nerves Get You Good {Recap}

Pitch chooses the episode just after the end of the World Series to tackle the stress of sports (it’s amusing in the sense that the entire Cubs franchise just got a chance to de-stress after 108 years), and for Ginny (Kylie Bunbury), the episode focuses on her feelings about a Nike endorsement and a party for her after a horrible start and accumulated stress of being Ginny Baker.

To begin, Ginny’s role as the first current (and popular) female player is daunting. She is one in hundreds of players in the Major Leagues, but she’s the one they want to compare to President Obama and Jackie Robinson. Those are two men I don’t want to be compared to and I’m not even a professional player. There’s a circus surrounding her at every corner, at every stadium and with each pitch she throws.

When is she supposed not be The Female Face of Baseball?

Cara (Lyndsy Fonseca), the waitress who doesn’t know who she is, represents everything Ginny hasn’t had: a college degree, limited responsibility. Regiments are great for Ginny, but live her with a life that probably isn’t her own.

Even her friends can’t help her unwind. She needs Blip (Mo McRea) to stay with her as one grounding figure that treats her as someone other than the Female Baseball Player. Mike (Mark-Paul Gooselaar) is her other lifeline outside of the game, but even his relationship with Amelia (Ali Larter) complicates Ginny’s life. (Let’s not even talk about Mike having his own Major League moment and how much his life is spinning out of control.)

PITCH: Mark-Paul Gosselaar in the all-new “Wear It” episode of PITCH airing Thursday, Nov. 3 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. Cr: Ray Mickshaw / FOX. © 2016 FOX Broadcasting Co.

As Ameila and Eliot (Tom Jo) try to find Ginny, he points out how much he’s given up to with her helping Ginny. There’s more sacrifices that her team is making. Ginny’s life to be an MLB player is one sacrifice after another. One day off is her first taste of freedom and it is both what she needs and what she doesn’t need. Cara offers that one day and it blows up because there hasn’t been an outlet until this point; Ginny’s life is pressure cooked and here’s the explosion.

Sports are demanding. Her role is demanding. But when can Ginny Baker make a demand for what she wants? What she really wants?

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Pitch airs on Thursdays at 9PM/8PM Central on Fox.