Baseball Pitch Sketches
Oct 11, 2007
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:
Onur Orhon Oct 11th, 2007
Interesting stuff, thanks for posting it. Can I ask why you ended up using rectangles for the 3×3 grid, instead of the perfect squares in the sketches? (I might be exposing my baseball ignorance with this question)
-onur
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Lokesh Oct 15th, 2007
The strike zone in baseball is taller than it is wide, how much depends on the height and stance of the batter. In the sketches I drew the strike zone square only because of convenience, the graph paper I was using had a squared grid.
Illustration of the Strike Zone
Jason Oct 26th, 2007
Nice. Very interesting to see someone’s concept process.
Misohoni Jan 4th, 2008
It’s a shame the drawings of the people never make it in the final version, I’d like to see them vectorised ;)
gage Feb 20th, 2008
HI
THIS COOL
JULIANO Apr 16th, 2008
kawaii!!, i very like this! @tokyo
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jacob reichbart Jul 1st, 2009
very nice. striking simplicity. love the espresso poster too!
Great stuff. I love seeing the different kinds of pitches visualized. If you're into baseball infographics, feel free to check out http://visualbaseball.wordpress.com. Not exactly what you're doing but related. Cheers Kevin Oct 8th, 2009
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