WASHINGTON — Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi threw out the primary pitch Tuesday earlier than the Washington Nationals’ annual Night Out recreation celebrating the LGBTQ+ group.

The California Democrat, who mentioned she is a season-ticket holder for each the San Francisco Giants and San Francisco 49ers and an everyday attendee at Golden State Warriors video games, mentioned she had by no means thrown out a primary pitch earlier than a recreation.

“I don’t even watch TV except for sports and so I know better than for a politician to go in front of a sports crowd — who came for that, right?” Pelosi mentioned. “But this tonight, (for) the LGBTQ, that was a whole different purpose, so I was very honored to do that and take whatever came my way.”

Pelosi took photos earlier than the sport with followers on the warning observe close to the third-base dugout whereas sporting a No. 52 Nationals jersey together with her final identify on the again and a rainbow wristband. The 83-year-old then walked in entrance of the mound and tossed a pitch that Screech, the Nationals’ bald eagle mascot, caught in entrance of the plate.

Pelosi mentioned the challenges confronted by the transgender group have offered much more cause to specific help.

“People always say to me ‘It’s so easy for you because San Francisco is so tolerant,’ and I say ‘Tolerant to me is almost condescending,’” mentioned Pelosi, who's in her nineteenth time period in Congress and was Speaker from 2007-11 and 2019-23. “We’re not tolerant, we respect and we take pride. I think at this time the challenge that we face is we insist we take pride very vocally.”

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