For much of baseball history, batting practice hasn’t evolved much beyond ... tenet of the design: how the ball spins. “We started out building a gyro machine,” Pope said.

This machine launched the ball toward the plate with a pitching style that was intended ... That competition doesn’t just take place on the pitch, the court, the track, or the field either.

It wasn’t a seamless process. Pope and his co-founder, Rowan Ferrabee, had to devise a way to generate life-like spin on the ball using a three-wheel pitching machine (“If you rotate the ...

"That machine is nice." Trajekt -- essentially a pitching robot that can ... "Some look similar, some don't. You're seeing them throw the ball, but I still think it's completely different in ...

Each has a pitching machine. "We can provide everything ... and practice and train kids. They don't have to be serious players. They can just hit the ball around." The staff also offers ...