Ginny Baker/Mike Lawson
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Pairing: | Ginny Baker/Mike Lawson |
Alternative name(s): | Bawson |
Gender category: | Het |
Fandom: | Pitch |
Canonical?: | No |
Prevalence: | Popular |
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Ginny Baker/Mike Lawson, also known as Bawson is the het pairing of Ginny Baker & Mike Lawson from the television show Pitch.
Canon
Ginny Baker is the first female pitcher to get called up to play in the Major Leagues. As a rookie on the San Diego Padres she gets to play alongside veteran catcher and team captain Mike Lawson. A friendship between the two develops. This friendship almost turns romantic when Mike is set to be traded to the Chicago Cubs, but the trade falls through before anything happens between them.
Fandom
What Mike Experiences: Fighting with Ginny over which one of them thinks more about the other.What Mike Doesn’t Realize: Their two worlds revolve around each other. Idiots.
What Mike Experiences: Losing himself in describing his favorite things about GinnyWhat Mike Realizes: Ginny is one of his favorite things.
What Mike Experiences: The meaningful looks from Blip and Omar when he finishes speakingWhat Mike Realizes: His rant about Ginny sounds like how he just described being in love.
What Mike Experiences: How enamored he is by listening/watching her hum Katy Perry songs off-key as she works outWhat Mike Realizes: He’s in love with Ginny Baker.
What Mike Realizes: HE. IS. IN. LOVE. WITH. GINNY. BAKER.
What Mike Experiences: The consuming feeling of being in love with Ginny Baker he’s been unaware of for—-he doesn’t know how long.Ginny x Mike 1x08: Experiencing Love and Realizing Love by writeonthrough
Common Tropes in Fanworks
- Canon Divergence AU involving Mike's failed trade to the Cubs.
- Mike's trade still falls through, but they find out about it after getting together.
- Mike's trade goes through, and he plays for the Cubs.
- Ginny and Mike wait for Mike to retire to act on their feelings. This often manifests as them getting together the night Mike plays his last game.
- Mike and Ginny get together while both are Padres, and they decide to keep their relationship a secret.
Notable Fanworks
Fics
- short days, long nights (tangled up with you) by sarahsjohnb
- Why we call it playing catch by lowriseflare & threeguesses
- Someday We'll Go All the Way by Lady_in_Red
Vids
- ginny & mike | on fire like a thousand suns (+1x09) by macysharry
- ginny & mike | i found by shadesofcolor
Fanart
- ✨💖✨ by MDGART