On June 27, I was watching my beloved St. Louis Cardinals play the Cleveland Guardians on Apple TV, a streaming platform I pay 13 bucks a month for, in large part so I can watch baseball games on Friday nights. The Cardinals were off to a surprisingly strong start to the season, and I remember this game specifically because actor J.K. Simmons was visiting the broadcast booth and had thrown out the first pitch.

Make sure to watch the first pitch of that inning . Guardians pitcher Luis Ortiz came into the game with a 4.30 ERA, fresh off his best start of the season (a ten-strikeout, six-inning shutout performance against the Oakland A’s), and he’d shut down the Cardinals for the first two innings. But then he threw a pitch that bounced roughly ten feet in front of the plate — a pitch so c

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