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This is not an event in Korea put together by BaseballHQ. It seems that in Korea throwing out the first pitch to a ballgame has become an entertainment and marketing opportunity.
Over at Slate, they asked a connoisseur of Korean baseball to provide some video of the most entertaining first pitches. You’ll have to click through the links to watch most of them at YouTube, but it’s worth it.
This was June 17, 2014. Jonny Gomes loses the ball and stands helplessly in left field. Brock Holt, playing center field for the first time ever at any professional level, takes off when the ball is hit and ends up making a diving catch in deep left center, a mile from where he started. That’s Holt on the right side of the frame, running before the camera zooms in. Amazing.
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