{"id":156164,"date":"2025-08-18T16:38:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156164\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T16:38:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T16:38:11","slug":"peyton-stearns-swaps-serves-for-strikes-in-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/156164\/","title":{"rendered":"Peyton Stearns swaps serves for strikes in Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, Cincinnati native Peyton Stearns was lined up for a ceremonial first pitch at a Major League Baseball fixture between her hometown team, the Reds and the Philadelphia Phillies. The weather had other ideas, and due to a pesky rain delay affecting the action at the Cincinnati Open, those plans had to be abandoned.<\/p>\n

This weekend, however, the sun was shining in Cleveland, and Stearns, in town for the Tennis in the Land WTA 250 event, was thrilled to be given a similar opportunity when the Cleveland Guardians took on the Atlanta Braves on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was so much fun,\u201d said Stearns after delivering her throw in front of a packed crowd at Progressive Field.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was super nervous about not throwing the ball near the catcher, but it only moved a little bit, so I think I did a pretty good job. I\u2019ll take it as a win!\u201d<\/p>\n

Asked whether she did anything special to prepare for the moment, Stearns laughed: \u201cThe warm-up was all on the tennis court this morning, hitting serves!\u201d<\/p>\n

Like tennis, baseball boasts a proud tradition: Both sports, as fans recognize them today, emerged in the 19th century.<\/p>\n

While lawn tennis has its roots in England, the first U.S. National Championships, today known as the US Open, were held in\u00a01881 at the Newport Casino in Rhode Island — now home to the International Tennis Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

And as it happens, Major League Baseball was founded in Cincinnati in 1876.<\/p>\n

History aside, Stearns enjoys the correlations between the different skillsets the sports\u2019 elite exponents must possess.<\/p>\n

\"Stearns<\/p>\n

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Getty Images\n <\/p>\n

\u201cI think there\u2019s similarity between the pitcher and the server,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of times, tennis coaches compare serves to a baseball throw out. The curve ball is like the slice serve, so it\u2019s kind of cool to use those analogies and crisscross through sports.\u201d<\/p>\n

But is she worried that her Cincy allegiances might be questioned?<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not sure, I know some of the Reds players follow me on Instagram \u2026 they may not be happy!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last week, Cincinnati native Peyton Stearns was lined up for a ceremonial first pitch at a Major League…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":156165,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,4063,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-156164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-text","11":"tag-united-states","12":"tag-unitedstates","13":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115050755208321217","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}