Baseball Pitch Sketches

A peek at some of the sketches and scribbles that led to the creation of the Baseball Pitch Diagrams.

I initially set out to capture the speed, break, and movement of the pitches in a single diagram for each pitch, showing the trajectory from the catcher’s perspective. As I got further along in the process, some pitches become harder to identify, because I had trouble distinguishing movement and break (splitter and forkball were particularly difficult to render). Movement being the general direction the ball is moving and break being a sudden shift in direction. This led me to add small profile views that help make the difference in break more apparent. It can still be quite subtle.

From the previous post, here is the final work including all twelve pitch diagrams: