Will Donald Trump throw ceremonial first pitch for World Series Game 5?
For the first time since 1933, Washington D.C. hosted the World Series as the Washington Nationals continued their 2019 Postseason run, starting with last night’s Game 3. The Houston Astros kept the Series interesting last night and won Game 3 with a final score of 4 – 1. The Nats still lead the Series, two games to one over Houston.
The World Series continues Saturday, October 26, with Game 4 set to begin at 8:07 p.m. at Nationals Stadium. With Houston winning last night, Game 5 is now guaranteed and will start at 8:07 p.m. on Sunday, October 27 – also in Washington, D.C. – the home of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Fox News reported the President as saying that if Game 5 was being played in D.C. that he’d definitely attend Nationals Stadium.
After the Astros won Friday, there were no Twitter messages from the president — at least as of early Saturday — saying one way or another if he still intended to show up Sunday.
But the president — and MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred — have already said Trump will not toss out the ceremonial first pitch, as other presidents have done at the World Series over the years.
His most recent Tweet as of this writing?
On air just now though, CNN reported that the President was planning to arrive at Game 5 – but after the ceremonial first pitch was thrown.
In 2004, Trump was invited to throw out the first pitch for the Somerset Patriots, a professional baseball team based in Bridgewater Township, New Jersey, – and he did surprisingly well.
(You can see that video clip here: The Washington Post / YouTube)
Trump said that his reasoning for not throwing out the first pitch was so that he could arrive after the game started so as not to interfere with fans getting into the stadium. For Games 4 and 5, all gates will open at 5:00 p.m. Fans are encouraged to plan ahead and arrive early in order to enjoy the pregame festivities.
For Saturday’s Game 4, the ceremonial first pitch will be thrown by a Nationals Youth Baseball Academy scholar-athlete, accompanied by current Nationals and big supporters of the Academy, Anthony Rendon and Max Scherzer.
For Game 5, Major League Baseball already knew that Trump wouldn’t be throwing the 60 feet from the pitcher’s mound to home plate. The Nationals will instead welcome chef and humanitarian José Andrés to throw a ceremonial first pitch. In January 2019 Andrés opened a World Central Kitchen on Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C. to feed federal workers who were furloughed during the government shutdown.
The complete 2019 Postseason schedule can be viewed at MLB.com/postseason.
(Source: MLB)
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