/ 09.27.2012 04:09PM
TBS to Feature ‘3D Hologram Imagery’ on MLB Wild Card
First game scheduled for Friday Oct. 18
ATLANTA— TBS announced that its Major League Baseball
post-season programming will include some new bells and whistles, including “3D
hologram imagery.”
Specifically, TBS says it will
use “innovative 3D imagery will illustrate detailed
examples of pitch grips while demonstrating the pressure points, release points
and rotation. Analysts will use the tool to explain how pitches work and how
the hitter approaches each type of pitch.” The network will also triple the
number of super slo-mo cameras it typically uses during the post season. It
will again integrate Bloomberg Sports statistics into the telecasts, and use
Pitch Trax in-game pitching location technology during its coverage.
The 2012 MLB post-season
telecasts will kick off with TBS’s first-ever Wild Card game, presented by
Budweiser, Friday, Oct. 5. The network, in its sixth consecutive year
televising the Division Series and one League Championship Series, will also be
the exclusive home of up to 18 Division Series games and the entire American
League Championship Series coverage on TBS presented by the Capital One Cash
Card. In the first year of the new postseason format, two Wild Card teams in
each league will play a single-elimination game with each winner advancing to
compete with the three division championship from its respective leagues in the
Division Series.
Turner Sports will also
leverage social media participation through Twitter with @MLB_TBS, @PostseasonPete and @TurnerSportsPR using #Postseason; and on
Facebook at www.facebook.com/mlbontbs