If you have tickets for Thursday night's Blue Jays-Yankees game in Sahlen Field, you're going to get an added bonus.
Buffalo Bills quarterback Josh Allen will throw the ceremonial first pitch prior to the 7:07 p.m. game, the Blue Jays announced Tuesday morning.
Hey Blue Jays Mafia 👀QB1 will be throwing Thursday's first pitch! pic.twitter.com/0eKk91ORp5
— Toronto Blue Jays (@BlueJays) June 15, 2021
Allen is in town for the Bills' mandatory three-day minicamp, which wraps up Thursday. The Bills open training camp July 27 at the ADPRO Training Center in Orchard Park. He played three years of varsity baseball at Firebaugh (Calif.) High School, compiling a .352 career batting average and a 7-2, 2.05 ledger as a pitcher with 76 strikeouts in 68 1/3 innings.
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What figures to be a heavily pro-Yankees crowd in Buffalo will see their team at another critical juncture this week against the hot-hitting Toronto Blue Jays.
New York Lieutenant Governor Kathy Hochul is scheduled to throw the first pitch prior to tonight's series opener. First pitches have been mostly shelved around baseball for the last year due to Covid-19 protocols that have kept most non-playing personnel off the field. That has also meant no anthem singers, mascots or mascot races but many of those traditions are now returning to ballparks around the country.
In addition, reporters have not been allowed in their customary perches on the field for batting practice interviews. Major League Baseball relaxed that rule on June 7 and Tuesday's series opener will be the first time the media has been on the field downtown since the end of the Bisons' 2019 season.
