His curve was a little too flat.
White House coronavirus task force member and diehard baseball fan Dr. Anthony Fauci threw the first pitch at the long-awaited 2020 MLB season opener — as the New York Yankees took on the World Series champion Nationals.
But Fauci, 79, should have stuck to infectious diseases — as he fumbled the ball straight into the ground.
Wearing a Nationals jersey and a red face mask, the 5-foot-7-inch righty bounced the ball on the grass, crossing the first base line, far wide of home plate.
He’d been aiming for Nationals reliever Sean Doolittle, but was just a bit outside.
Fauci, a Brooklyn-born Nats fan, did have some pre-game jitters, telling the team’s Ryan Zimmerman he was “quite nervous” about pitching.
“Okay, well don’t worry about it,” Zimmerman — who is sitting out the season for health reasons — had responded in a tweeted video.
“If you bounce it, there’s nobody there to boo you. So, you’ll be good to go.”
Not long before the highly anticipated game, President Trump announced he will throw the opening pitch at Yankee Stadium on Aug. 15.
Trump told reporters he was invited by his pal, Yankees president Randy Levine. He wondered how it would go with no crowd in the stands amid the pandemic.
“They say, ‘How’s the crowd gonna be?’ And you know, it’s like you don’t have a crowd, there was no such thing, it’s gonna be interesting,” Trump said.