Quick Pitch (TV series)
| Quick Pitch | |
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| Starring |
Heidi Watney Sam Ryan (weekends) various fill-ins |
| Opening theme |
2017- "HandClap" by Fitz & The Tantrums 2009-2016 "Crowd Chant" by Joe Satriani |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of seasons | 8 |
| No. of episodes | approx. 1, 440 (180 per season) |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | MLB Network |
| Picture format |
480i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Original release | April 6, 2009 – present |
| External links | |
| Website | mlbnetwork |
2017- "HandClap" by Fitz & The Tantrums
Quick Pitch is an American television show centered on showing highlights of baseball games from the previous night. Quick Pitch airs on MLB Network during the MLB regular season at 1 A.M. ET every weeknight (sometimes earlier if there are fewer than three west coast games), 8 P.M. ET every Sunday, and after Saturday Night Baseball or MLB Tonight every Saturday. Reruns of Quick Pitch are also shown every morning during the regular season.
The show's opening theme song is "HandClap" by Fitz and The Tantrums.
Quick Pitch is set in MLB Network's Studio 21 with the host(s) standing on the set. The show is typically consists of highlights, but major stories such as contract signings, trades or player retirements are also covered. Usually after each highlight, the starting pitchers for the teams' next game are shown.
A unique trait of Quick Pitch is that in some highlights, they use the television or radio announcers' call of the game to go through the highlights instead of the host commentating every play.
Quick Pitch is similar in format to the ESPN show SportsCenter but covers baseball exclusively.
In 2009 and 2010, Quick Pitch was exclusively a single-host program with Hazel Mae hosting Sunday-Thursday and Matt Yaloff hosting Friday and Saturday. For the 2011 season, Mae and Yaloff moved to a new afternoon program, The Rundown. Newly hired anchor Paul Severino anchored the Monday and Wednesday editions of the show in 2011, and fellow newly hired anchor Ahmed Fareed anchored Thursday-Sunday that same year. Lisa Kerney served as a frequent Sunday night and fill-in anchor in 2011. With the addition of several new reporters, the hosting work of Quick Pitch was split between five different anchors in 2012, including Fareed, Severino, Greg Amsinger, Scott Braun, and Alanna Rizzo, with Sam Ryan acting as a fill-in anchor.
Due to the typical lack of MLB Tonight on Tuesday nights in 2011 because of doubleheader live game coverage, MLB Network used an anchor-analyst format for Quick Pitch on the Tuesday edition, which was nicknamed "Two-fer Tuesday" for this reason. Greg Amsinger hosts and Dan Plesac provided analysis for the first edition, then different combinations subsequently.
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