--- title: 50 Cent's Epic Fail Opening Pitch at the Pirates-Mets Game description: Get the pitch or die tryin' canonical: https://time.com/121324/watch-50-cents-epic-fail-of-a-first-pitch/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-28T00:37:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:10:04.010Z og:title: Watch 50 Cent's Epic Fail of a First Pitch og:description: Get the pitch or die tryin' og:url: https://time.com/121324/watch-50-cents-epic-fail-of-a-first-pitch/ 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 50 Cent's Epic Fail of a First Pitch twitter:description: Get the pitch or die tryin' twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch 50 Cent's Epic Fail of a First Pitch  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney May 28, 2014 12:37 AM CUT  by [Nolan Feeney](/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney May 28, 2014 12:37 AM CUT Curtis Jackson III, otherwise known as your friend and mine, 50 Cent, is many things — a rapper, an actor, a businessman — but undiscovered baseball talent he is not. Just watch as he tries to throw the opening pitch during Tuesday’s game between the New York Mets and the Pittsburgh Pirates. (If you can even call that trying.) But don’t worry, Fiddy, you’re not alone — here are [10 other terrible ceremonial pitches](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FIRQ0RjJ20Q "undefined"). One comes courtesy of a dinosaur. \[[_BuzzFeed_](http://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelrusch/watch-50-cent-throw-the-worst-first-pitch-in-baseball "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/121324/watch-50-cents-epic-fail-of-a-first-pitch/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/121324/watch-50-cents-epic-fail-of-a-first-pitch/"},"headline":"Watch 50 Cent's Epic Fail of a First Pitch","datePublished":"2014-05-28T00:37:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:10:04.010Z","description":"Get the pitch or die tryin'","url":"https://time.com/121324/watch-50-cents-epic-fail-of-a-first-pitch/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","celebrity","50 Cent"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"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/121324/watch-50-cents-epic-fail-of-a-first-pitch/","name":"Watch 50 Cent's Epic Fail of a First Pitch"}}]}] ```