Baseball Drama ‘Pitch’ Canceled by Fox

Baseball drama Pitch will not return for a sophomore season on Fox. The show, about a female pitcher making the big leagues, had Kylie Bunbury and Mark-Paul Gosselaar in the cast and was generally liked by critics. It averaged 4.7 million total viewers.

Creator Dan Fogelman took to Twitter to express his disappointment with the news.  “I was informed today that #Pitch won't be getting a 2nd season on Fox. Obviously we're all crushed - thank you to our amazing fans...,” tweeted @Dan_Fogelman.

In a subsequent tweet, he said the Pitch gang “took a bad hop grounder to the face today.”

Michael Malone

Michael Malone, senior content producer at B+C/Multichannel News, covers network programming, including entertainment, news and sports on broadcast, cable and streaming; and local broadcast television. He hosts the podcasts Busted Pilot, about what’s new in television, and Series Business, a chat with the creator of a new program, and writes the column “The Watchman.” He joined B+C in 2005. His journalism has also appeared in The New York Times, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Playboy and New York magazine.