Pitch - Scratched - Review

This week on Pitch, the focus was on Mike and whether or not he’s leaving the Padres. Al confronts Oscar about his relationship with his daughter, who announces that she’s leaving. Evelyn starts to grow concerned about her investment in Will’s restaurant after checking the finances. Mike says goodbye to his fans, but then gets offered the chance to stay. However, this is after he and Ginny nearly kiss. 

Favorite moment: I really liked seeing Oscar and Al bond over Natalie leaving and pissing off Charlie. These two need to be on the same side, they work so much better as a team. I’m still not quite sold on Oscar but Al has really grown on me. I always enjoy his scenes. I wish we’d seen a bit more of his relationship with his daughter. Last week I hadn’t been paying close attention and didn’t even realize that she was his daughter and now she’s already gone again. 

Least favorite plot direction: It always bothers me when something is hyped all the way through the episode and then suddenly just doesn’t happen. All week the big new was Mike leaving the team. We saw everyone come to terms with it (including Mike), we saw him say goodbye to the fans … and then it doesn’t happen. Now I get that this was probably to create new tension between him and Ginny (more on that later) but it felt kind of anticlimactic. And I feel like it somehow cheapens his actual goodbye that will one day follow. So my point is if you’re going to center an entire episode around something, at least follow through with it. 

The elephant in the room: I dreaded getting started on this review because I knew I would not be able to avoid talking about Ginny and Mike. So here’s my point of view. If you’re a die-hard Bawson shipper, this is when you look away. Personally, I don’t ship it. I’m a big supporter of Ginny’s rule not to date another player because we all know that the almost kiss is going to cause issues. If it absolutely had to happen, I wish they hadn’t gone through with it this soon. Regardless of how long this show will last, it’s really early to put two main characters together. Either it works and they’re happy for a while until the writers inevitably throw obstacles at them that ends up ruining everything (has happened with most of my long-term ships) or it doesn’t and becomes so awkward that one of them leaves the show or something. I figured there would be a lot of “will they, won’t they?”. Apparently, the writers had other plans. 

Trouble ahead: So we knew from the start that Will’s not great when it comes to finances. It seems that now Evelyn is starting to realize that too. My question is, how much money has she already put in. For her sake, I hope it’s not too late to back out. It seems that Ginny is also realizing that she may have moved to quickly in supporting her brother. There’s a reason the writers had Noah mention that restaurants are a bad investment. I’m guessing that this is a storyline the writers hope to pull through to next season (if there is one). 

Most concerning: Wow, Ginny is terrible at making excuses. Her explanation of why she walked out on a date to see Mike was terrible. Hasn’t Amelia trained her on this? What the hell is she going to do when interviewers ask questions she doesn’t want to answer? Unless she was bad on purpose. In which case, never mind. 

Favorite guest star: Chris Keller! I’ve missed seeing Tyler Hilton. I really liked his character. I kept expecting him to do something wrong to explain why she’d leave and go see Mike instead but he was a perfect gentleman. Oh well, her loss. 

Best quotes: Blip: “Ginny, you need to get some.” 
Amelia: “Don’t hug me.” Mike: “I wasn’t gonna.” 
Oscar: “Is this your way saying, don’t trade mike?” Al: “No, this is my way of saying don’t trade Mike. Don’t trade Mike!” 

That’s it for this week. Check in again next week for an all-new review and let me know in the comments what you thought of this week’s episode.