Janesville, Wisconsin. While attending a Washington National’s baseball game last week, Representative and Vice Presidential candidate Paul Ryan, chosen to throw out the game’s first pitch, told the cheering crowd at Nationals Park that this reminded him of the time he pitched a perfect game for his little league team, the Janesville Jaguars.
Ryan played baseball in the Janesville 10-and-under league for one season, before quitting to go into politics. Suspicious Little League officials in Janesville, remembering Ryan’s false marathon time boast, decided to check the scorecard of the game in question.
RIGHT: That it looks like when you have a presidential candidate and a running mate who are totally in sync. (CLICK PHOTO TO ENLARGE)
Ryan, know as Pauly Ryan at the time, was the third string backup pitcher for the Jaguars. The other two pitchers had become ill for unknown reasons.
The scorecard revealed the Pauly Ryan actually pitched only part of one inning, giving up 12 hits and 9 runs to the visiting Janesville Jets, before being replaced by right fielder Patti ‘Pigtails’ Johanssen who struck out the side.
When faced with this contradictory information from the Janesville Little League historian, Ruth Baskerville, Ryan said: “This was a long time ago. I was only 10, how can I be expected to remember the score? It seemed like a perfect game in my memory, but I could be mistaken. Did I tell you about the time I bowled a perfect 300 game?
Cut him some slack, people are always getting 4 and 2 hours mixed up;
“I’ll be home in 2 hours” my husband says when he goes out for a drink with friends, but I know he means 4 hours, sometimes longer.