--- title: Snoop Dogg Throws Horrible First Pitch at Padres Game description: Snoop Dogg had the honor of throwing the ceremonial first pitch at the San Diego Padres-Atlanta Braves game Tuesday night canonical: https://time.com/4362877/snoop-dogg-first-pitch-baseball-padres-braves/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-09T16:41:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:12.523Z og:title: Watch What Happened When Snoop Dogg Threw the First Pitch at a Padres Game og:description: There's no pitching contract in his future any time soon og:url: https://time.com/4362877/snoop-dogg-first-pitch-baseball-padres-braves/ 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 What Happened When Snoop Dogg Threw the First Pitch at a Padres Game twitter:description: There's no pitching contract in his future any time soon twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch What Happened When Snoop Dogg Threw the First Pitch at a Padres Game by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 9, 2016 4:41 PM UTC by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Jun 9, 2016 4:41 PM UTC Snoop Dogg had the honor of throwing the ceremonial first pitch at the San Diego Padres-Atlanta Braves game Tuesday night and it was far from a home run. The pitch flew nowhere near the catcher as the cameraman and fellow bystanders dodged the ball. Snoop expressed lots of excitement before the game — unfortunately, his throwing abilities didn’t quite match his enthusiasm, [according to TODAY](http://www.today.com/popculture/snoop-dogg-rivals-50-cent-his-terrible-first-pitch-padres-t97311). > [](https://twitter.com/Padres/status/740630306646953985) Snoop’s pitch had a lot in common with fellow rapper [50 Cent’s throw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-yuxF-C4%5F8), which MLB commentators dubbed “not great.” Snoop, who played a set as “DJ Snoopadelic” after the game, took the disastrous throw in good stride and laughed it off. > [](https://twitter.com/FOXSportsSD/status/740638062099632128) Snoop Dogg Throws Horrible First Pitch at Padres Game ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4362877/snoop-dogg-first-pitch-baseball-padres-braves/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4362877/snoop-dogg-first-pitch-baseball-padres-braves/"},"headline":"Watch What Happened When Snoop Dogg Threw the First Pitch at a Padres Game","datePublished":"2016-06-09T16:41:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:33:12.523Z","description":"There's no pitching contract in his future any time soon","url":"https://time.com/4362877/snoop-dogg-first-pitch-baseball-padres-braves/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"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/4362877/snoop-dogg-first-pitch-baseball-padres-braves/","name":"Watch What Happened When Snoop Dogg Threw the First Pitch at a Padres Game"}}]}] ```