n spent the previous two years dumping his hometown baseball workforce in public, one jersey at a time. On Thursday night time, he made it official at Wrigley Subject.
The injured s level guard threw out the ceremonial first pitch carrying a Cubs jersey earlier than s, taking the mound at Wrigley relatively than 90 miles north in Milwaukee.
Haliburton, from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, was a Brewers fan his complete life. That led to 2024, d, when the workforce invited him to throw out a primary pitch that summer season, then pulled the supply after his Pacers eradicated the s within the playoffs.
"I used to be a Brewers fan after which I used to be speculated to throw the primary pitch final summer season after which they X'd that after the playoffs ended," Haliburton mentioned on the 5. "So I mentioned, you realize what, I'm now not a Brewers fan."
It was a tough break up. Haliburton began displaying as much as Pacers video games in Cubs and Dodgers gear, together with a Cubs jersey at a preseason recreation in October 2025. When the Dodgers swept the Brewers out of the Nationwide League Championship Collection that fall, he leaned into rooting towards Milwaukee.
The Dodgers seen. Supervisor Dave Roberts invited Haliburton to leap on the bandwagon and throw out a primary pitch at Dodger Stadium.
"I'd like to supply him the primary pitch at Dodger Stadium, and he can rock that Ohtani jersey in its rightful place," Roberts mentioned on Amazon's "Good Sports activities With Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson."
Haliburton, who calls himself a baseball free agent, has had loads of time to apply his first pitch. n in s towards r in June 2025 and was out for your complete 2025-26 season. The Pacers have mentioned he isn't anticipated to play once more till late 2026.
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