What's wrong with that throw?
If the catcher would haxe stretched a little bit he could have caught it.
Posted on 08/04/2020 11:19:52 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Dr. Anthony Fauci threw a wild first pitch a week ago to open the MLB season during a pandemic.
His pitch for the Yankees and Nationals game missed the plate by a safe social-distancing measure and he delivered a joke about it the next morning.
Now, Fauci is giving a more detailed explanation of why his first pitch was so far off.
It comes down to “a mishap on my part,” the nation’s leading infectious disease expert said.
Fauci, 79, joked last week that he was a shortstop growing up and thought he was supposed to throw to first base. The avid Nationals fan was more serious in explaining it’s been decades since he’s thrown a ball and didn’t practice at a correct distance.
“It certainly was a mishap on my part. I had been practicing for two days before at a walk-down that I thought was 60 feet, and it was really, probably, about 45 feet. And I was throwing and throwing, and I got it right. But only it was at 45 feet and I hurt my arm because I haven’t thrown a baseball in decades.”
By the time he took the mound in a Nationals jersey, hat and mask, his arm “was killing me,” he said, but he told himself he could suck it up and throw it like he did in practice.
“When I got to the mound, I said, ‘Oh, my god, Sean Doolittle looked like he was 200 feet away.
“So I completely changed the form of my throw. And instead of just throwing it, lobbing it overhand, which would have landed right in front of him, I wound up and threw it like a bullet, only it went way off to the left. So it was my bad all the way.”
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What a man!
Double-down on the worst pitch ever by making excuses about it. Won’t he ever learn to just shut-up?
He panicked and held on to the ball too long.
Nooo...you are: 1) a girly man 2) not exactly 25 anymore
Please Fakie STFU all ready!!!
So why did he sit right next to his buddies in the stands afterword, sans facemask? I call bullsweat...
Looked like a windage issue to me also.
The king of distancing didn’t properly distance? Ha! That’s funny.
This quack Doctor can’t even measure distance.
What is he doing as head doctor?
Well isn’t he cute.
LOL, what a moron!! How weak and self important is this creep to believe anyone gives a crap about his feminine throwing except for the fact it was a good laugh.
When someone is incapable of admitting they screwed up or just plain made a mistake, I question their capacity to tell the truth in general.
This guy is a joke and a liar. I cannot fathom how to made it into the position he’s in.
Is there something about cameras that force everyone in front of one to lie?
He made it into his current position precisely because he is a liar.
What's wrong with that throw?
If the catcher would haxe stretched a little bit he could have caught it.
Fauci’s excuses are reminding me of Hillary telling us why she didn’t win.
His pitch was as inaccurate as his proclamations.
Everyone is trying to write for the babylonbee.
Look at that follow through.
Perfect form.
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