--- title: Video of Hero Cat Throwing First Pitch at Baseball Game description: Tara the heroic cat was asked to throw the first pitch at a minor league baseball game. It went as well as you thought it would. canonical: https://time.com/107412/heres-what-happens-when-you-ask-a-cat-to-throw-the-first-pitch-at-a-baseball-game/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-21T14:35:17.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:09:52.904Z og:title: Here's What Happens When You Ask a Cat to Throw the First Pitch at a Baseball Game og:description: Somehow we don't think this is the reward hero cat really wanted og:url: https://time.com/107412/heres-what-happens-when-you-ask-a-cat-to-throw-the-first-pitch-at-a-baseball-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's What Happens When You Ask a Cat to Throw the First Pitch at a Baseball Game twitter:description: Somehow we don't think this is the reward hero cat really wanted twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's What Happens When You Ask a Cat to Throw the First Pitch at a Baseball Game by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler May 21, 2014 2:35 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler May 21, 2014 2:35 PM UTC Tara the heroic cat was asked to [throw the first pitch at a minor league baseball game](http://time.com/102889/hero-cat-is-now-invited-to-throw-the-first-pitch-at-a-baseball-game/) after a [video of her saving her small human from an attacking dog](http://time.com/99301/cat-saves-boy-from-attacking-dog-video/) went viral. It went as well as you would imagine a cat throwing a baseball could go. And she still did better than Carly Rae Jepsen. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/107412/heres-what-happens-when-you-ask-a-cat-to-throw-the-first-pitch-at-a-baseball-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/107412/heres-what-happens-when-you-ask-a-cat-to-throw-the-first-pitch-at-a-baseball-game/"},"headline":"Here's What Happens When You Ask a Cat to Throw the First Pitch at a Baseball Game","datePublished":"2014-05-21T14:35:17.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:09:52.904Z","description":"Somehow we don't think this is the reward hero cat really wanted","url":"https://time.com/107412/heres-what-happens-when-you-ask-a-cat-to-throw-the-first-pitch-at-a-baseball-game/","keywords":["Newsfeed","animals","viral","Baseball","cat"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/107412/heres-what-happens-when-you-ask-a-cat-to-throw-the-first-pitch-at-a-baseball-game/","name":"Here's What Happens When You Ask a Cat to Throw the First Pitch at a Baseball Game"}}]}] ```