Pitch Review: Don’t Say It (Season 1 Episode 10)

Here’s hoping Pitch gets a renewal, especially since the Season 1 finale leaves us with a major cliffhanger.

Actually, it leaves a lot of things unfinished, but it still manages to be a powerful conclusion to the show’s first season.

The focus is largely on Ginny and the question of whether or not she should continue to pitch, or if it’s time for her season to end so that she doesn’t push her body beyond its limits.

She also doesn’t want to go finish the season badly, and really, who can blame her?

The pressure Ginny faces to do well is more than if she was just any rookie. Her name is going to go down in history, and of course, she doesn’t want her first season to end with a game that didn’t go well for her.

What she wants, is to end on a no-hitter. And she gets awfully close to that goal, thanks NOT to some inspiring speech from Mike or a memory of her father, but thanks to her own strength. (Well, that strength is inspired from a story from the adorable Noah, but still).

She even tells Mike she doesn’t need his help. She doesn’t need to be rescued by a man. She just needs to focus on herself.

Unfortunately, from the looks of that cliffhanger, it’s the wrong call.

As much as we all probably wanted to see Ginny end her season with a no-hitter, her team does her a disservice by allowing her to push herself too far. Mike’s right that she should get to play, but Blip is also right that the long-term is more important. And he’s the only one who’s actually seen her play a full season.

I actually find the cliffhanger to be problematic. First of all, it feels predictable. It’s exactly what Oscar and Charlie are concerned will happen if she continues to play, and it happens just as she reaches her innings limit.

It would have also been nice to see a bit more closure. Ginny deserves that no-hitter, and instead, she suffers and injury that prevents her from finishing the game and could also leave her career hanging in the balance.

This also comes after she sends her brother away along with Amelia. She’s making it so that all she has left in the world is her team. That’s not to say she isn’t right to call her brother out for being a con artist and betraying her trust. She certainly is. But when it comes to Amelia, I think she pushes her away out of a larger need to make changes, and maybe a more generalized anger.

Meanwhile, Mike may be back, but he realizes that he’s lost his team. He isn’t truly the team captain anymore, because he no longer commands the respect he once had after everyone learns it wasn’t actually his decision to call off the trade deal.

He’s only staying because going to the Cubs is no longer an option.

Blip, understandably, feels especially betrayed, and it makes it seem like Mike is losing everything too — except that maybe, just maybe, he’s going to get the love of his life back.

The shared look they have during the game feels like enough closure to think Mike might get some sort of happy ending after all.

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