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 ...