Fan masterfully nails photographer with the worst first pitch ever

A perfectly awful throw.
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Marcus Gilmer
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Fan masterfully nails photographer with the worst first pitch ever
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Finally, 50 Cent can rest easy. Someone has topped his awful first pitch to take the crown as "worst ever."

Ahead of the Kansas City Royals vs. Chicago White Sox game on Tuesday night, a White Sox employee throwing out the ceremonial first pitch accidentally flung the ball way off course, striking a photographer who thought he was standing in a relatively safe zone to capture the moment.

The team didn't name the woman afterword, according to the Chicago Tribune, to save her further embarrassment. But her daughter took to Twitter to share the moment and offered up a look at the scuffed up baseball after it had dinged the photographer's camera.

Making the moment even more impressive: the photographer still captured the shot, just moments before he got nailed. Perfection.

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Marcus Gilmer

Marcus Gilmer is Mashable's Assistant Real-Times News Editor on the West Coast, reporting on breaking news from his location in San Francisco. An Alabama native, Marcus earned his BA from Birmingham-Southern College and his MFA in Communications from the University of New Orleans. Marcus has previously worked for Chicagoist, The A.V. Club, the Chicago Sun-Times and the San Francisco Chronicle.


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