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Baseball might be back in Korea … but traditional ceremonial first pitches sure as hell ain’t!!
Check out how the Korean Baseball Organization adhered to social distancing guidelines while kicking off one of its games Tuesday … a 9-year-old in a bubble did the honors!!
KT Wiz held a socially distant first pitch before their game today pic.twitter.com/DR0R9wulRi
— Dan Kurtz (@MyKBO) May 5, 2020
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The unique scene all went down just before KT Wiz’s game in South Korea … when Lee Raon took the mound inside of an air-filled bag shaped like a baseball.
But, instead of the kid throwing out a pitch … he walked his bubble to home plate, signifying the game’s first throw — and boom, that tipped off the action on the diamond!!!
Unclear how the kid was able to breathe … but everyone sure seemed to enjoy baseball’s return to the country amid the coronavirus pandemic regardless — the little boy even got a through-the-bubble high-five from the catcher!!
Strange times … but if it takes things like this to bring MLB games back to the United States — TAKE NOTE, ROB MANFRED!!!