‘Pitch,’ One Of The Best Positive TV Series About A Black Woman You Won’t Get To See

The fictional series on Fox about a Black woman pitcher has been canceled indefinitely.

Pitch, a fictional series on Fox about a Black woman pitcher that premiered in September, has been canceled indefinitely after one season, or 10 episodes.

The show’s lead actress, Kylie Bunbury, who played the role of Ginny Baker, took to Instagram last week to pen a grateful letter to fans, thanking them for their love and support.

“My heart is heavy,” she writes in the post. “Pitch will not be returning. I don’t have some eloquently thought out caption, because I’m still processing it all. Ginny Baker has profoundly changed my life and I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to play a role that resonated with so many people…Thank you to all of the fans who took the journey with us! Your support and love for the show has always moved us deeply! I love you all. Ginny Baker out.”

The show followed Bunbury, a new pitcher for the San Diego Padres, and the first woman to play in Major League Baseball. The series tackled different themes and tropes surrounding the glass ceiling for women in a male dominated industry, especially for a Black woman. In reality, Black women earn just earn 63 cents to every White man’s dollar. Non-Hispanic White men make up the largest segment of the workforce in America.

For her part, the fictional Baker had to navigate the world as “one of the guys”, and prove herself a capable athlete who was not merely a spectacle. She also had to juggle the sexual objectification of her Black body, and her responsibility as a singular role model for women and girls. Baker was a complex TV…

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