Stephen Curry can basket a basketball from halfcourt, but a baseball in a glove is apparently a different story. His wife wasn’t much better.
Curry and his wife, Ayesha, attended side-by-side opening pitches at an Oakland Athletics game on Wednesday. Neither pitch was notably bad in the grand scheme of awful first pitches, but the comedy makes up when they’re put together.
Leo Tolstoy didn’t exactly write “All good first pitches are equal, but every bad first pitch is bad in its own way”, but the curries illustrate this principle enough. Ayesha’s was the classic soft toss that didn’t even come close to making it to the catcher while Stephen seemed to go full speed on the pitch and ended up throwing it over a meter.
However, before you laud Ayesha for having the better pitch, watch the video again and realize she threw it at the wrong catcher. Stephen has also thrown at least one good first pitch for the Giants (from Tokyo, not from San Francisco) in the past.
The A’s performed at least slightly better than the Curries on the mound, defeating the Houston Astros 4-2 in the following game to complete a three-game sweep.
Stephen and Ayesha Curry are a power couple, but not on the hill. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)