WWE girls’s world champion Tiffany Stratton threw the primary pitch at Thursday’s New York Mets dwelling recreation in opposition to the Washington Nationals, and it rivaled a few of the most notorious throws in celeb MLB first pitch historical past. Stratton’s toss flew over the left-handed batters field and one-hopped the backstop, properly out of the attain of Mets outfielder Jared Younger, who served because the ceremonial catcher.
The Mets chosen Stratton to throw the primary pitch after she lately defended her title because the WWE girls’s champion. She received the title in January and has made quite a few profitable title defenses over the following months. The previous United States nationwide staff gymnast joined the SmackDown model in 2024 after a dominant run in NXT.
Stratton debuted in WWE in November 2021 after she received weightlifting and bodybuilding championships on the heels of her gymnastics profession.
Stratton’s throw evoked recollections of different ceremonial first pitches gone flawed, together with maybe essentially the most notorious one among all, which coincidentally additionally occurred at a Mets dwelling recreation at Citi Area. Rapper 50 Cent missed the plate by an nearly unbelievable margin when he hurled the primary pitch at a Could 2014 recreation in Queens, and the gaffe stays greater than a decade later one of many biggest lowlights by a celeb on the mound.
Whereas 50 Cent’s throw is basically the usual by which all ceremonial first pitches are measured, the Queens native is way from alone on the checklist of the worst tosses of all time. “Name Me, Perhaps” singer Carly Rae Jepsen spiked a ball immediately into the turf in 2013 when she took the mound at Tropicana Area forward of a Tampa Bay Rays recreation.
Stratton is just not the one fight star to go viral for the flawed causes with a primary pitch. UFC legend Conor McGregor had a second to neglect at Wrigley Area in 2021 when he launched a fastball to the backstop, properly past the right-handed batters field. The heave bounced off the brick wall and caromed sharply in the direction of the primary base dugout.
On worldwide soil, five-time Grammy Award winner Mariah Carey tossed a ball into the turf properly in entrance of the plate in 2008. Clad in excessive heels and traditional 2000s garb, Carey threw the primary pitch on the Tokyo Dome forward of a contest between the Yomiuri Giants and Rakuten Eagles, and her providing didn’t make it midway to the catcher.
Ceremonial first pitches include quite a lot of stress, and a few celebrities deal with the second higher than others.
