What are the best ceremonial first terrains in MLB history?

Ichiro Suzuki appears for Seattle Mariners’ Play for opening day, in full uniform, Deliver the first point?? It’s a great moment there, a party for the whole family. Who doesn’t like Ichira? It’s hard not when he’s dressed as if he still can go out on the field, and since he can still throw 84 mph, it’s not for the show either.

What are the best ceremonial first terrain? Let’s look at the history of the league for some of the most fun that all kinds of people had there with a reflector on them, and tens of thousands of people were waiting to see if they could reach a plate at all.

Ichiro Suzuki (2022)

While we are already on that topic, here’s Ichiroa again, when he took the crowd in the first field in 2022. While attempted in 2025 was a way to celebrate his almost one-off election at Baseball’s Hall of Fame, in 2022 Ichiro was dressed in his Mariners equipment in 2001, throwing the first terrain on the promising rookie, Julio Rodríguez.

Ichiro then entered 84.5 mph, which was then impressive enough for a 48-year-old who was no longer active and was also not a thrower. But that he had held that speed in the last three years, despite being far enough from his toy career to be chosen in Cooperstown. Ichiro remains a delight.

Sister Mary Jo (2018)

Sister Mary Sobieck – now more popular as sister Mary Jo – wasn’t just throwing a strike when she got the opportunity to throw out the first burden on a Chicago White Sox Play 2018. No, she decided to show shortly before the field, bounced the ball off her hand and grabbed her before she let her unbutton.

It turns out that she also took something off the field, because the video explains that she can actually throw 76 mph. Sister Mary Jo was three -sport athlete In high school and her first two years of college and, like Ichir, he did not show signs of rust, even though she was 50 at the time of the field.

Not many first -tons throwers are at the end with Bobblehead, a baseball card and an ESPY nomination, you know. But Sister Mary Jo got all three.

Flips, Flips, Flips (2011-2024)

There is a whole genre of the first terrain, from the last 15 years or something, where someone who can make some killers of agile and contour does so only before their field. Sometimes well in front of the embankment, sometimes somehow on the crowd, and regardless of the location, everyone is a great hour.

Nastiia Liukin, who won the record of gymnastics in the United States at the 2008 Olympics, won five gold medals, appeared in 2017 before a Los Angeles Angels Playing to throw out the first tone with a turn.

The legendary Olympic gymnast and champion Simone Biles threw more first terrain and sometimes quite standard jobs. Before the game of 2 World series 2019 between Washington Nationals and Houston AstrosHowever, Biles decided to show those skills that won her 11 Olympic medals by twisting the turn before she settled to throw the field.

Then, in 2024, another Olympic gold medal, Hezly Rivera, turned to the board as part of the leadership to the real tone, reminiscent of Liukin’s move from more than a decade before.

To the future champions of Olympic Gymnastics Gymnastics, your goal is clear: Make a flip part Real movement of throwing your festive first tone and become immortal. Well, again immortal, you are already an Olympic champion in this scenario.

They are not just Olympians who can la in their first terrain flying through the air. Fitness influencer Demi Bagby overturned and made a divided part of his tone for San Diego PadresAnd, fortunately, she preserved a moment on her YouTube page.

And who can forget Gabryel nimora da Silva, Cirque du Soleil performer That they called Padres to throw out the first terrain in 2011?

This is the closest we have done to be a throwing movement part of the acrobatics instead of “just” what happens after them. Dream can be a reality. Even if it’s Balk. Hey, these are ceremonial The first playgrounds, the rules can be neglected.

In addition, they are beautiful beautiful, and it’s quite clear from all this, Padres like to mix it with their first games. Still, that time with a velociraptor He does not qualify here because he did not reach the plate with his throw. Then the Raptor threw the terrain with his mouth, so let’s give him an applause anyway.

The video is marked “Baby T-Rex”, but the announceers say “Raptor”, which you already know since you just watched it.

Via Catapult (2016)

For the day of Pare in Miami 2016 – it is science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics – students built a catapult and used it to eject the first tone for Marlin. Probably a good thing is that the recipient of the first terrain, Billy Marlin, had a mascot to protect himself: that thing was flying.

Katie Ledecky displays (2016)

What is great in this Katie Ledecky first field before the Washington Nationals-Osim playing what he threw a strike, but a lot of people do this-one that she brought in the Nanational star then Bryce Harper Outside with her, they took off their many Olympic medals, one at a time, to hold him while she was doing.

That just shows up, but hey, she made money. And it’s not like building a pool to swim the ball to the end before throwing it, so everyone was waiting to see how amazing your Olympic performance had to be enough.

Baseball Major League is not the only place where the ceremonial is the first field of institutions. In Nippon Professional Baseball, the first playgrounds include an affair that often includes mascots, celebrities, a player who swings (and misses) on the field and even occasional wrestling matches.

Honestly, more ceremonial first terrain should end with a surfing section. You know you want to see John Cena trying to use Phillie Phanatic, if he just hears what kinds of Phanatic would make with an applied STF.

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