Friday President Joe Biden hosted the reigning World Series champion Los Angeles Dodgers to the White House.
And what the president said stole the show.
He purportedly told Dodgers players that he hit a a long ball 368 feet in the annual congressional baseball game during his time in Congress. Every year Republicans and Democrats face off in the ball game as a political tradition.
There was just one problem with his story.
Well, a few actually.
The whole story was debunked by the vigilant Republican National Committee Director Zach Parkinson. Parkinson quickly dismissed the credibility of Biden’s “Major League” day.
“… I played in the second Congressional baseball game at the old stadium, in the old Washington stadium,” he said. “And I hit one off the right center field wall, bounced off the wall. I think it’s 368, or I don’t know what it is exactly now, but off the wall. And I’m rounding … anyway, to make a long story short, my kids remember that, all the rest. And guess what? Only thing I remember too. Yeah. I thought, ‘What could have been. What could have been.’”
But Parkinson checked the record books.
As Biden mentioned, based on his career on Capitol Hill, his 2nd congressional baseball game would’ve been in 1974 — based on the evidence Parkinson dug up.
There was no proof of a 368-foot shot.
“He went 0-2,” Parkinson wrote.
Not a single hit for Joe.
Biden's second Congressional baseball game would have been in 1974
Did he really hit a 368 foot shot?
No, he went 0-2 https://t.co/EXtET8orNx pic.twitter.com/TwUnAy1Zgg
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) July 2, 2021
And that bit about playing at the “old Washington stadium?”
It seems as though Joe doesn’t have his facts straight there either, based on Parkinson’s findings.
The RNC director pulled evidence that the game during the year Biden mentioned was actually played at Memorial Stadium in nearby Baltimore…
Biden also claimed this hit came "at the old stadium" in DC (RFK)
Except the Congressional baseball game was played at Memorial Stadium in Baltimore for Biden's first four years in Congress
The game wasn't played at RFK again until 2005https://t.co/wb9n1lUTVC pic.twitter.com/LmAAvf5fO5
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) July 2, 2021
Parkinson also isn’t buying that Biden simply mixed up the year.
He provides photos of what appears to be newspaper clippings with reporting on the 1973 game (which can be seen in the tweet above).
But he says that it’s unlikely that Biden — or anyone — would hit a 368-foot shot and only manage to get a single out of it.
Biden says his kids remember… maybe someone should ask Hunter?
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