Kansas City Chiefs star quarterback Patrick Mahomes is known to the NFL world as a great athlete. It seems like that also translates over to the baseball diamond, as he flashed his ability in a celebrity softball game on Friday.
Mahomes took part in the Big Slick celebrity softball game at Kauffman Stadium, the home of the Kansas City Royals. He made sure to remind the world that he was once a star baseball player.
He stepped to the plate and hit an inside-the-park home run, with an assist from some pretty terrible defense from the opposing team.
Patrick Mahomes with an inside the park home run to tie the game, thanks to some “bad defense.” 🤣 pic.twitter.com/X87CaBS6mu
— Farzin Vousoughian (@Farzin21) June 2, 2023
Mahomes is well known for his ridiculous passes where he is sometimes not even looking at his receiver. He brought some of that magic to the field, making a ridiculous behind-the-back throw once they took the field to get out the runner at first from the third base position.
Patrick Mahomes with a no-look behind the back throw to first base to get out Eric Stonestreet 👀💪 @PatrickMahomes @ericstonestreet @BigSlickKC pic.twitter.com/7hq5d8TcpW
— Farzin Vousoughian (@Farzin21) June 2, 2023
Many took notice of his special day on the field and question what can’t Mahomes do as an athlete.
What can't Patrick Mahomes do!?
(via @MLB)pic.twitter.com/kCkjRxKfUi
— FOX Sports: MLB (@MLBONFOX) June 2, 2023
Patrick Mahomes just hit a home run. pic.twitter.com/Zd9MeW6oZY
— Pete Grathoff (@pgrathoff) June 2, 2023
An inside-the-park homer from Patrick Mahomes.
Don’t worry, #ChiefsKingdom, he took it easy. 😅 pic.twitter.com/biFpDwZMET
— Tucker D. Franklin (@tuckerdfranklin) June 2, 2023
Look out, these two are on opposing teams today 👀@PatrickMahomes x @creed_humphrey pic.twitter.com/B38CGbpo0v
— Kansas City Chiefs (@Chiefs) June 2, 2023
Get Patrick Mahomes in the lineup ASAP pic.twitter.com/3bNdevVnNq
— Royals Daily (@RoyalsDaily_) June 2, 2023
While it was impressive to see Mahomes perform so well in another sport, he does have a bit of an unfair advantage over everyone he was playing against.
He has plenty of life experience on the baseball diamond, playing baseball all throughout high school and even getting drafted in the 37th round of the 2014 MLB Draft. His dad also pitched in the MLB for 11 seasons from 1992-2003.
Mahomes seemingly had fun, but he likely plans to stick to his main sport of football moving forward.
“Football game next!!!” Mahomes tweeted after the game.
Football game next!!! https://t.co/x1Dl8kDuzg
— Patrick Mahomes II (@PatrickMahomes) June 2, 2023
[Farzin Vousoughian on Twitter]
