--- title: Parks and Rec Star Chris Pratt Throws First Pitch at Chicago Cubs Game description: Chris Pratt threw first pitch at Cubs game in Chicago and kinda messed up but he was still totally charming about it. canonical: https://time.com/3269138/chris-pratt-first-pitch-at-cubs-game/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-09-04T16:50:15.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:58.149Z og:title: Watch Chris Pratt (Adorably) Mess Up His First Pitch at Chicago Cubs Game og:description: He's totally charming about it, obviously og:url: https://time.com/3269138/chris-pratt-first-pitch-at-cubs-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: Watch Chris Pratt (Adorably) Mess Up His First Pitch at Chicago Cubs Game twitter:description: He's totally charming about it, obviously twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Chris Pratt Messes Up First Pitch at Cubs Game, Is Completely Charming About It by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 4, 2014 4:50 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Sep 4, 2014 4:50 PM UTC We’ve finally found the _one_ thing Chris Pratt cannot do perfectly: throw a baseball. He took the mound at Wrigley Field yesterday to throw the first pitch on behalf of the Cubs — and while it wasn’t a _complete_ disaster, it definitely wasn’t great: As expected, though, he totally pulled a Chris Pratt and was adorable and charming about the whole thing. The _Parks and Recreation_ star, who was in Chicago[ filming the show](http://www.redeyechicago.com/entertainment/redeye-parks-and-rec-in-chicago-20140903,0,6613458.story), just threw his hands in the air, [shrugged it off](http://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/pratt-reaction.gif?w=650), smiled his Chris Pratt smile, and moved on with his life. Then he took selfies with fans because he’s the best: > [](https://twitter.com/EllenMichelle/status/507317329802567681) To be fair, the pitch wasn’t _nearly_ as bad as some of [the other first pitches ](http://time.com/3137968/funny-worst-first-pitches/)we’ve seen — but even if it had been the worst one of all time, we’re confident that Pratt would have found a way to make it adorable. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3269138/chris-pratt-first-pitch-at-cubs-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3269138/chris-pratt-first-pitch-at-cubs-game/"},"headline":"Chris Pratt Messes Up First Pitch at Cubs Game, Is Completely Charming About It","datePublished":"2014-09-04T16:50:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:58.149Z","description":"He was in Chicago filming Parks and Recreation","url":"https://time.com/3269138/chris-pratt-first-pitch-at-cubs-game/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Baseball","chicago","celebrity","Chicago Cubs","chris pratt"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"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/3269138/chris-pratt-first-pitch-at-cubs-game/","name":"Chris Pratt Messes Up First Pitch at Cubs Game, Is Completely Charming About It"}}]}] ```