BuzzFeed - Fox For a while, it looked like Fox's new fall drama Pitch was never going to happen. The show's creators ? Dan Fogelman and Rick Singer ? struggled to find an actor capable of playing their lead Ginny Baker, the first female pitcher accepted into Major League Baseball. Of the 1,000 or so athletes and actors who tried out at the countrywide auditions, Fogelman felt like no one could take on the complex role, which not only required a performer who could convincingly play an elite athlete, but also one who was equally deft at comedy and drama. "I remember at one point I told my wife that I didn't know if we were going to find her," Fogelman told BuzzFeed News in a recent phone interview. "If we didn't find a girl who felt believable, we really didn't have a show [and] I wouldn't have made the show if we didn't find the right girl." Bunbury Fox Late into the audition process, 27-year-old Kylie Bunbury walked into Fogelman's office. "Sometimes
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