The throw was later challenged and overturned, ruled to not be a first pitch, when it was determined that the Comptroller was not in contact with the rubber.
Bruce, I can strike you out pitching from behind the rubber.
And I can strike you out pitching from behind second base.
Heck Bruce, I can strike you out pitching from anywhere in this ball park.
- Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 7:04 pm:
Saw my OPRF boys, who I’d known since they were babies, win a state championship there in 2012. Saw some older boys finish second a few years earlier. Great venue.
It’s a real cool stadium, and there’s a lot going on in downtown Joliet, if you like eating, drinking, gambling and entertainment.
- Yup! - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:07 pm:
True ballplayer, throwing from the mound.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:08 pm:
“I’d like to send Rauner to the Slammer…”
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:12 pm:
Mendoza, still delivering chin music…
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:14 pm:
She’s got a million dollar acumen and a $0.05 cent arm…
- Keyrock - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:15 pm:
Unlike the Governor, she looks like she knows what she’s doing.
- City Zen - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:16 pm:
“Janus takes another pitch high and inside…”
BTW - Props for matching the jersey with the shoes.
- Nick Name - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:17 pm:
“What, no baseball catcher costume, Brucie? Too bad.”
- DuPage Saint - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:18 pm:
Keyrock absolutely right.
- wondering - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:22 pm:
Yeppers, Keyrock
- SSL - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:24 pm:
Nice leg kick. Looks like she means business.
- Anonymous - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:24 pm:
The throw was later challenged and overturned, ruled to not be a first pitch, when it was determined that the Comptroller was not in contact with the rubber.
- Anon - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:26 pm:
STEEEE-Rike !!!
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:27 pm:
I think she’s breathing out of the wrong eyelid…
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:27 pm:
“This one… aim for the mascot”
- Robert the Bruce - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:29 pm:
Comptroller/pitcher Mendoza takes the mound, wondering which agency is sitting on the bill to pay the glove manufacturer.
- Rabid - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:31 pm:
Hardball advancing Rauner to first base
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:36 pm:
She pitches with fear and arrogance… as all good pitchers do.
- IlliniSpartan - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:36 pm:
Wow. Looks like really good form…
- Rabid - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:40 pm:
WW4c
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:40 pm:
Mendoza only throws heat. No need for a curve. The heat she throws… it’s unhit-able
- Henry Francis - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:43 pm:
Rollerblading? Who the heck still does that?
- Rabid - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:44 pm:
Holy cow
- anon - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:45 pm:
Balk.
- SHEEEESH - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:56 pm:
Hey Barack, take note.
- Lolz - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 4:57 pm:
Gotta respect the 4 seam grip
- Southside Markie - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 5:08 pm:
“Pitching is the art of instilling fear.” — Sandy Koufax
- Oswego Willy - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 5:09 pm:
Mendoza canceled 3 times until her catcher was called up from Thunder Bay…
- Precinct Captain - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 5:13 pm:
Not pictured is Bruce Rauner’s swing and miss
- Henry Francis - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 5:48 pm:
The Comptroller taunting the Lt. Governor by showing her she can standb on just 1 foot and still avoid slipping and falling.
- Stuntman Bob's Brother - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 5:56 pm:
“Winding up for her first attempt at the “Dunk the Governor” tank at the State Fair”
- JS Mill - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 6:21 pm:
Mendoza: “Brucie can’t handle my heat”
- 37B - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 7:00 pm:
Bruce, I can strike you out pitching from behind the rubber.
And I can strike you out pitching from behind second base.
Heck Bruce, I can strike you out pitching from anywhere in this ball park.
- Arthur Andersen - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 7:04 pm:
“Slo-Pitch is for wimps”
- Huh? - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 7:28 pm:
Too bad she got called on the balk.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balk
- wordslinger - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 8:00 pm:
“Crazy Uncle Joe might let you buzz my boys with no retaliation…
“But I came up with Ozzie, so this one is going right in your ear, and then we’ll all have a go on the mound to settle it….”
- Redraider - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 8:17 pm:
Classic, you are a real piece of work. I cordially invite you back to humanity
- wordslinger - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 9:05 pm:
FWIW, that Joliet stadium downtown is the goods.
Saw my OPRF boys, who I’d known since they were babies, win a state championship there in 2012. Saw some older boys finish second a few years earlier. Great venue.
It’s a real cool stadium, and there’s a lot going on in downtown Joliet, if you like eating, drinking, gambling and entertainment.
If you don’t like those things… I got nothing.
- walker - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 10:06 pm:
Batter’s knees are shaking.
- Long time R - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 10:49 pm:
She will never pitch a complete game . By the 7th inning she will be finished. And right now she is in the 4th.
- I don't have a job - Thursday, Jun 28, 18 @ 10:58 pm:
Comptroller Mendoza becomes the first Chicago Democrat politician to fire a ceremonial first pitch strike wearing mom jeans.
- Rabid - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 5:32 am:
Victorious proxy winner goes for a double hitter
- Louis G Atsaves - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 6:11 am:
Balk. Mendoza’s foot is off the rubber. Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.
- Rabid - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 7:23 am:
Tossing numbers throwing shade
- Rabid - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 7:27 am:
If you got something to say stick your head out of the trench
- Rabid - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 7:30 am:
I don’t get headaches I give headaches
- Michael Westen - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 8:35 am:
Form looks better than any White Sox pitcher
- theCardinal - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 8:41 am:
Not bad for All State soccer player but the Arm angle is weak and its a Balk she isnt even on the rubber…
- Anonymous - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 8:48 am:
Someone posts that she looks like she know what she is doing, unlike Rauner.
Look where her foot is on the rubber.
- Name Withheld - Friday, Jun 29, 18 @ 11:06 am:
“Gov seen running for dougout as Mendoza winds up the pitch…”