Wiz Khalifa tripped on the mound before Monday’s Pirates-Guardians game, but that doesn’t mean he fell.
Rather, the Pittsburgh native was asked to throw out the ceremonial first pitch and agreed to do so while high.
‘Finna get stoned af and throw this first pitch at the Pirates game,’ the 35-year-old tweeted ahead of Pittsburgh’s 11-0 loss to Cleveland.
Shortly thereafter, he claimed to have completed his objective.
‘Shroomed out, throwing a baseball is weird,’ he wrote on Twitter.In case anyone doubted the legitimacy of his statements, Khalifa posted a photo earlier in the evening of two mason jars of marijuana and a small package of psychedelic mushroom sweets.
‘Studio tonight,’ he captioned the image.
But first, Khalifa had to perform his responsibilities at PNC Park, where Pirates pitcher Mitch Keller was given a ceremonial pitch that soared well outside.
Khalifa shrugged, patted the laughing Keller on the back, and returned to his luxury suite for more Cracker Jacks.
‘F*** yea,’ Khalifa said beside a photo of himself holding a bag of molasses-flavored, caramel-coated popcorn.
Later, in the early hours of Tuesday morning, Khalifa uploaded a photo of himself smoking a joint with the message ‘Haven’t slept.’Marijuana and hallucinogenic mushrooms remain prohibited in Pennsylvania.
However, the Pirates have a soft place for hallucinogenics.
In 1970, pitcher Dock Ellis famously threw a no-hitter on LSD.
The Los Angeles native was visiting a friend in the area prior to the Pirates’ series against the San Diego Padres that season. During that stay, Ellis used LSD multiple times before losing track of time.
As Thursday turned into Friday, he was reminded that he was pitching in San Diego that night and rushed to the airport, where he boarded a flight and rejoined his team.Despite struggling to see or feel the ball, Ellis shut down the Padres’ batters in a 2-0 victory.
“I only remember bits and pieces of the game,” Ellis told United Press International in 1989. ‘I was excited. I felt euphoric. I was focused on the [catcher’s] glove, but I didn’t hit it too hard. I recall hitting a few hitters, and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small and large at times, and I saw the catcher sometimes and not others.
‘At times, I tried to stare the hitter down and threw while gazing at him. I chewed my gum till it turned into powder. They think I had three or four fielding chances. I recall leaping out of the way of what I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball didn’t hit hard and never reached me.
Ellis had a difficult personal life, suffering drug and alcohol troubles over four marriages, but he eventually conquered his addictions and helped to collect funds for sickle cell anemia research while mentoring young athletes.