Al Roker threw out the first ball at Game Three of the American League Championship Series in Cleveland last night. Roker, who worked at WKYC-TV for five years earlier in his career, tells allDay.com‘s Dan Fleschner, “I got a call, asking, ‘Do you want to throw out the first pitch?’ My sister lives in Cleveland with her husband and three kids, and I thought, if nothing else, it’s a way for them to get free tickets to the game. I thought about it and thought, ‘Wow, this is great!'”
So how did Roker do? “I just was so thrilled that I was able to get it over the plate without bouncing it. It was a little high, but I got it out.”
And was he nervous, standing before the crowd at Jacobs Field? “No,” Roker explains. “I’ve walked into Meredith (Viera)’s dressing room by accident a couple times. If I can do that and survive, throwing a pitch in front of 45,000 screaming fans is nothing.”