{"id":1359,"date":"2016-04-23T15:10:02","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T19:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2016-09-27T14:04:27","modified_gmt":"2016-09-27T18:04:27","slug":"in-focus-a-giant-mccutchen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/2016\/04\/23\/in-focus-a-giant-mccutchen\/","title":{"rendered":"In Focus: A giant McCutchen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew McCutchen stands in the on-deck circle at PNC Park and puts the finishing touches on his Marucci \u201cCutch22\u201d bat as the chunky sounds of \u201cThe King\u2019s Motorcade\u201d blare from the ballpark\u2019s sound system. The song is Mr. McCutchen\u2019s signal. Time to go to work. As he makes his way to the batter\u2019s box, his image appears on the giant screen of the scoreboard.<br \/>\nThat image was filmed in a massive tent at the team\u2019s Bradenton, Fla., facility during spring training. The tent serves as headquarters for the PNC Park scoreboard crew. There, Mr. McCutchen spent an hour being filmed against a green screen to produce images for a season\u2019s worth of computer graphics to be played across PNC Park\u2019s big screen.<br \/>\nFunction and management of the screen requires the efforts of more than 25 employees, including a full TV production crew that controls the video feed. So the next time you\u2019re at PNC Park and you see a giant image of Mr. McCutchen flash across the scoreboard with the city skyline as a backdrop, you\u2019ll know who to thank.<br \/>\n\u2014 Peter Diana<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:500px;height:350px;\" data-ps-embed-type=\"slideshow\" data-ps-embed-gid=\"G0000uz_9Uh8G9UE\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew McCutchen stands in the on-deck circle at PNC Park and puts the finishing touches on his Marucci \u201cCutch22\u201d bat as the chunky sounds of \u201cThe King\u2019s Motorcade\u201d blare from the ballpark\u2019s sound system. The song is Mr. McCutchen\u2019s signal. Time to go to work. As he makes his way to the batter\u2019s box, his image appears on the giant screen of the scoreboard.<br \/>\nThat image was filmed in a massive tent at the team\u2019s Bradenton, Fla., facility during spring training. The tent serves as headquarters for the PNC Park scoreboard crew. There, Mr. McCutchen spent an hour being filmed against a green screen to produce images for a season\u2019s worth of computer graphics to be played across PNC Park\u2019s big screen.<br \/>\nFunction and management of the screen requires the efforts of more than 25 employees, including a full TV production crew that controls the video feed. So the next time you\u2019re at PNC Park and you see a giant image of Mr. McCutchen flash across the scoreboard with the city skyline as a backdrop, you\u2019ll know who to thank.<br \/>\n\u2014 Peter Diana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":1360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12,15,187,11],"tags":[],"coauthors":[28],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/05\/20160226pdPiratesSports03.jpg?fit=2600%2C1506&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1361,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions\/1361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsinteractive.post-gazette.com\/photos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}