Ceremonial first pitches usually aren’t very memorable. For the most part, that’s a good thing.
On Tuesday, however, we were given a first pitch that was exceptionally memorable. It was memorable because it was just a perfectly divine bad first pitch.
All the time we see first pitches that miss the target by 10 feet, or come up lame halfway to home. But I don’t think we’ve ever seen what happened before the Chicago White Sox hosted the Kansas City Royals two days ago.
Mary Ruich, a server at the White Sox Guaranteed Rate Field, got the first pitch honors after being named employee of the month (congratulations, Mary!