Chiefs’ Patrick Mahomes recalls brief, but brutal college baseball experience

It’s arduous to consider that there are some issues Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes can’t do.

Whereas chatting with the media on Wednesday forward of his second Tremendous Bowl look, Mahomes recalled his brush with baseball when he performed as a aid pitcher for Texas Tech.

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“I got here into the sport. I walked the primary man, I consider. I hit the second man. I gave up a double. They scored a run after which I acquired taken out of the sport,” Mahomes mentioned of the 2015 match-up towards Northern Illinois. “I feel I had an infinity ERA. That’s not one thing that I’m very proud to have on my file.”

Justin Fletcher, a second baseman for the Huskies that Mahomes walked, advised Yahoo Sports that whereas he didn’t quit a double, he “couldn’t discover the zone.”

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Official information from the sport confirmed that Mahomes truly walked a hitter, hit one other after which walked Fletcher earlier than getting pulled. Fletcher recalled how odd it was that after he acquired pulled, he acquired a standing ovation. 

“It was the weirdest factor,” he advised Yahoo Sports activities. “I acquired again within the dugout and requested, ‘What was happening with them giving him a standing ovation, have been they being imply to him?’ My teammates have been like, ‘He’s the beginning quarterback on the soccer group.’”

Mahomes truly had a profitable baseball profession at Whitehouse Excessive College in Whitehouse, Texas. He was ok to be chosen by the Detroit Tigers within the thirty seventh spherical of the 2014 MLB Draft, however he pursued his soccer profession in school, deciding in his junior 12 months that he would solely focus on the gridiron. 

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Baseball runs within the Mahomes household. His father, Pat, performed in additional than 300 video games in his 11 seasons within the MLB, principally as a reliever. 

Mahomes additionally introduced over the summer time that he was now part-owner of an expert group. 

“I am honored to turn into a part-owner of the Kansas City Royals,” Mahomes mentioned in an announcement. “I like this metropolis and the folks of this nice city. This chance permits me to deepen my roots in the neighborhood, which is one thing I am excited to do.”

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Mahomes may have the possibility to win his second, consecutive Tremendous Bowl when the Cheifs tackle the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in Super Bowl LV on Sunday.