The first original series from Pixar Animation Studios, dubbed “Win or Lose,” follows a middle school coed softball team as it prepares to play for a championship. The name of the team is the Pickles.

The Pickles retorted it was “time to lawyer up" when the animation studio provided a look at the series last year.

Pickle’s antics inspire the fictional middle school Pickles — and their logo and uniforms — which resemble those affiliated with the Portland Pickles? Disney did not respond to multiple ...