{"id":12796,"date":"2024-10-31T03:09:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-31T03:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12796"},"modified":"2024-10-31T03:09:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-31T03:09:20","slug":"yankees-great-paul-oneills-game-4-first-pitch-was-so-bad-he-demanded-a-do-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=12796","title":{"rendered":"Yankees Great Paul O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s Game 4 First Pitch Was So Bad He Demanded a Do-Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_kxg88gmwz\">New York Yankees great Paul O&#8217;Neill was in the Bronx on Tuesday night to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 4 of the World Series.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_zian9mw9e\">With former Yankees pitcher A.J. Burnett serving as his catcher, O&#8217;Neill tried to make sure he didn&#8217;t short hop the pitch from the mound. It seems he put a little too much muscle on his throw, as it went sailing way over the head of Burnett and into the backstop.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tout_d_12_4\">\n<div id=\"tout_d_12_4_slot0\" data-google-query-id=\"CJKw9IzSt4kDFYWxOgUdyjo5gg\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/23162276296\/SportsIllustrated\/si.com\/tout_d_0__container__\">\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_0pvubknp0\">The crowd couldn&#8217;t mask its surprise over O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s errant throw, and clearly the 61-year-old wasn&#8217;t pleased with his performance, either.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Paul O\u2019Neill throws tonight\u2019s ceremonial first pitches in the general direction of A.J. Burnett: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kZs7WgLUlp\">pic.twitter.com\/kZs7WgLUlp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Bryan Hoch \u26be\ufe0f (@BryanHoch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BryanHoch\/status\/1851414102712664532?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 30, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_166tx257q\">Before leaving the mound, O&#8217;Neill could be seen gesturing to Burnett to throw the ball back to him, and proceeded to throw another ceremonial first pitch. This one had more velocity behind it and a lot less arc, and it bounced just before reaching Burnett&#8217;s mitt.<\/p>\n<div id=\"tout_d_12_5\">\n<div id=\"tout_d_12_5_slot0\" data-google-query-id=\"CPjPs5PSt4kDFWGuOgUdRbop5w\">\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_m5ts4w856\">While fans won&#8217;t be forgetting the first pitch that sailed past Burnett, O&#8217;Neill wasn&#8217;t going to let himself go out like that, promptly demanding the do-over in order to provide a better pitch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York Yankees great Paul O&#8217;Neill was in the Bronx on Tuesday night to throw out the ceremonial first pitch before Game 4 of the World Series. With former Yankees &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12798,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12796\/revisions\/12798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}