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Throwing out the ceremonial first pitch is one of baseball’s great honours, but get it wrong and you’re pretty much guaranteed 15 minutes of online fame.
The latest person to find that out is 17-year-old Jordan Leandre, a diehard Boston Red Sox fan and former cancer patient, pitching as part of the team’s 50th anniversary of the “Impossible Dream” commemorations.
Go on Jordan, what could go wrong?
Bang, right in the cojones.
The unlucky chap is the Eagle Tribune’s photographer Tony Capobianco, although he did manage to get that image you see up top.
I guess every cloud has a silver lining, and Jordan has plenty of awful first pitch company. Here are a few more epic fails from years gone by:
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