Arizona Cardinals tight end Zach Ertz threw the ceremonial first pitch before the Phillies took on the Red Sox in Philadelphia on Saturday, and it’s safe to say the experience didn’t go as planned. The former Eagles star bounced his ball into the dirt while his wife, soccer player Julie Ertz, threw a succesful first pitch while standing farther away.
The morning after Ertz’s misfire at Citizens Bank Park, his former Cardinals teammate J.J. Watt decided to tease him on Twitter.
“We have to get this scrubbed from the internet ASAP @ZERTZ_86,” Watt wrote in a quote tweet showing Ertz’s pitch. “We cannot have people with lots of followers retweeting and sharing this. Have you ever thrown a baseball before?!”
Former Indianapolis Colts punter Pat McAfee decided to join in on the fun. Under Watt’s tweet, McAfee admitted he might have “accidentally” retweeted it.
Watt quickly came up with a clever response to that comment.
“That’s actually ok. I only reposted it…
