The 10 Most Embarrassing First Pitches of All Time

Taking a quick break from being filthy rich, George Steinbrenner's wife, Joan, threw out the first pitch to commemorate the naming of the Yankees spring training field after her husband.

You would think after watching enough baseball in her life she would have at least a small grasp of what it took to throw a baseball.

You would have thought wrong.

Starting halfway to the plate didn't even help. She drilled the ball right into the ground like she was channeling Chuck Knoblauch.

Most humans have a difficult enough time throwing out first pitches. I don't know why someone thought a dinosaur could do any better.

First of all, its mechanics were terrible. It didn't use its legs at all, and the follow-through suffered because of it. The sidearm-type technique may have gotten maximum distance, but the accuracy was basically nonexistent.

I would go as far to say that this baby T-Rex has no future in baseball.

The first pitch thrown from space was technically not that bad, but the speech that preceded it was what landed it on this list.

Here are some things that Reisman said he was looking forward to when he gets back to Earth:

"...seeing an A-Bomb from A-Rod, gasping as the milkman delivers, marveling at the sweet swing of Robinson Cano, admiring the toughness of hip-hip-Jorge, and, of course, the shortstop, number two, Derek Jeter...number two."

There's just something so wrong about "gasping as the milkman delivers." And why did he feel the need to pronounce Jeter's name that way? Or add his number again at the end?

So bad.

I don't know who the man is in this video, but his toss was so bad that I couldn't possibly leave him out.

I love how the tongue starts to come out as he begins his delivery, then after he lets go you can see the disappointment in his face as he bends over in defeat.

The soundtrack makes this all the more epic.

Another nameless victim that became immortalized by his first pitch.

The assistant dean of the Nevada School of Medicine (not quite sure how that is important enough to throw out the first pitch for anything) suffers the ultimate shame by falling down and even performing a somersault.

He tries to get up and play it off, but there is no playing that off.

I especially like the comment from the crowd at the end: "Was that intentional?"

I can't decide what my favorite part about this video is.

Is it Mariah attempting to throw out the pitch in giant heels?

Or is it the huge grin she keeps plastered on her face as she thinks, "I can't believe somebody convinced me to do this. They better be paying me a ton of money. I hope nobody can tell that I'm drunk right now."

Carolla finds his way onto this list because he was the perpetrator of not one, but two terrible first pitches in the same game.

It doesn't even matter that his third pitch finally found its way near the plate. The fact that he even tried a third pitch is humiliating.

You can actually almost hear his pride shatter after he sails his second one.

The most recent addition to our list, Baba Booey of the Howard Stern Show disgraced Mets fans everywhere by offering up one of the worst tosses I have ever seen.

Literally, a six-year-old just learning to throw a baseball could get it closer than that.

You can see the pain in his eyes as he realizes what he has just done. He knows how much he is going to get ridiculed for this.

Poor Carl Lewis.

Did you know that he won a gold medal? Now it seems like all anyone knows him for is his butchering of the national anthem.

Not only that, but he is also guilty of the worst throw ever by someone that could be called an athlete. Although he has seemingly destroyed all evidence of it, we still have this animated gif to appreciate.

Just so we're clear, if you are ever thinking of involving Carl Lewis in any pre-game type event...think twice.

The Mayor of Cincinnati gets the distinct honor of throwing out the worst first pitch of all time.

I doubt that anyone could do a worse job even if they tried.

Mallory does a little stutter-step to start things off and then proceeds to throw the ball almost entirely sideways.

Do you think that as a kid he would sit in his room practicing his debating skills instead of playing baseball with the other children?