ESPN's Phil Orlins on Producing the "Controlled Chaos" of the MLB Home Run Derby
SVG Onsite • 9m 6s
ESPN returned to Seattle's T-Mobile Park to bring baseball fans the fireworks for the 2023 MLB Home Run Derby.
Since the event shifted to a timed format in 2015, producing the event has become an increasingly greater - but also fun - challenge for ESPN. To meet that challenge, the network has more aggressively integrated real-time augmented reality graphics and deepened its partnership with MLB's Statcast team to layer in data on the spot during the event.
ESPN's VP of Production Phil Orlins spoke with SVG's Brandon Costa about why this year's broadcasts - on both ESPN and ESPN2 - feature some of the "most aggressive experimentation" he's seen, what's new that viewers can expect, and more of ESPN's work being done in Seattle.
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