ESPN’s Home Run Derby coverage on Monday night will feature new 3D home run spray charts and an analyst-controlled immersive replay for better dissection of hitters’ swings.
The 3D spray chart builds off the network’s three-dimensional K-Zone that debuted during last year’s American League wild card game. That recurring rendering of the strike zone only required digital recreations of the pitch’s path from mound to plate. What ESPN will debut Monday is a 3D production of Nationals Park in its entirety so that home runs leaving the bat at upwards of 120 miles per hour and traveling up to or even exceeding 500 feet can be tracked.