Add Baker Mayfield to the list of NFL quarterbacks taking up other sports during the offseason. The Cleveland Browns star was hanging out with the Milwaukee Brewers in Phoenix on Friday and joined in as the team took pregame batting practice.
Mayfield was working out with the team thanks to his buddy and Brewers right fielder Christian Yelich, and the former high school baseball player actually looked pretty good.
But then an errant foul ball of his pelted Brewers fan Amanda Siemandel, who was watching from the stands down the right-field line, on her left wrist, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Despite Mayfield’s ball destroying her watch and causing a little swelling, Siemandel still walked away with a prize. Via the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Mayfield saw the ball strike Siemandel and yelled from the batting cage, “Sorry, ma’am!”
Undaunted, Siemandel recovered the baseball and was holding it as the Brewers exited down the right-field line for the clubhouse after BP ended. She yelled to Mayfield that she was the one struck by his liner and asked if he would sign the ball.
“It looked like they were going to leave, and I hollered, ‘Hey, can you sign the ball you hit me with?’” Siemandel said. “He said, ‘Oh, I hit you? Are you OK? Are you doing OK?’ He was super nice about it.”
Mayfield said he grew up dreaming of playing professional baseball, and his best position in high school was third base. He said it was “pretty crazy” that his friendship with allowed him a chance to take a couple swings before the Brewers’ 6-2 win over the San Diego Padres Friday.
But how good was he back in the day? Mayfield told reporters, via ESPN:
“I was actually a decent player in high school. Had a few offers out of high school to play baseball, but love football too much. But baseball was always my first love and always will be. … Good arm, but I couldn’t throw a strike. Never pitched, couldn’t throw a strike.”
