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Keep on with basketball, Zach Edey.
The Purdue large man was invited to throw out the primary pitch at Tuesday’s Chicago Cubs recreation, and, properly, it was not nice.
Give him credit score. The 7 ft, 4 inch star, rocking his No. 15 on the again of the royal blue pinstripes of the Northsiders, went to the rubber to fireside off the pitch.
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NBA Draft prospect Zach Edey throws a ceremonial first pitch earlier than the sport between the Chicago Cubs and the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Subject on Might 6, 2024 in Chicago. (Quinn Harris/Getty Photographs)
Clark the Cub went behind the plate, so it was not like this had a lot of an opportunity of being stopped within the grime. Nevertheless, not even Johnny Bench, Yadier Molina or Pudge Rodriguez would have finished a lot.
Edey got here out of the stretch and got here set, and his type seemed midway respectable. It was simply the outcome that was tough to see.
He yanked his pitch properly into the left-hander’s batters field, and it one-hopped into the brick-wall backstop.
A video through the event really went viral of a high-school-aged Edey throwing a bullpen session, so it explains why his mechanics appeared alright.
Fortunately for Edey, he’s a back-to-back Naismith Award winner. In these two seasons with the Boilermakers (73 video games), Edey averaged 23.8 factors and 12.5 rebounds.
Purdue’s Zach Edey, #15, celebrates the crew’s 77-71 win over Illinois, whereas Illinois’ Coleman Hawkins, #33, walks off the court docket after an NCAA faculty basketball recreation on Tuesday, March 5, 2024, in Champaign, Illinois. (AP Picture/Charles Rex Arbogast)
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His Boilermakers have been upset by No. 16 Fairleigh Dickinson in final yr’s March Insanity, however this yr, they made all of it the way in which to the ultimate earlier than shedding to now back-to-back champion UConn.
It does stay to be seen the place Edey will fall in subsequent month’s NBA Draft, but when something, his efficiency on this yr’s NCAA Event definitely helped his inventory.
In his six video games in March Insanity, he averaged 29.5 factors and 14.5 rebounds, together with a 40-16 line within the Elite 8, and a 37-point effort within the championship. Edey wound up scoring virtually two-thirds of the Boilermakers factors in opposition to UConn.
Edey figures to go within the mid- to late-first spherical.
NBA Draft prospect Zach Edey throws a ceremonial first pitch earlier than the sport between the Chicago Cubs and the San Diego Padres at Wrigley Subject on Might 6, 2024 in Chicago. (Quinn Harris/Getty Photographs)
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He’s listed as 285 kilos, however given his peak, some bulking up may result in dominance down low.
Edey will discover out his destiny on June 26.
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