Pat Venditte, who made his Major League debut with the Oakland Athletics last Sunday, can pitch both right- and left-handed… and apparently underwater, too. This headline from the East Oregonian, a newspaper that circulates in the small town of Pendleton, Oregon, describes the switch-pitcher as “amphibious,” instead of the correct term, ambidextrous.
Favorite headline of week. He pitches righty, lefty — and evidently, also underwater. Faces Aquaman in next outing. pic.twitter.com/efxaQxFp8Z
— Neill Woelk (@NeillWoelk) June 8, 2015
These newspaper editors aren’t the first to confuse the two terms: A North Carolina State basketball player used amphibious to describe himself as left and right-handed. We forgive you, small paper in Oregon.
(Via SB Nation and CBS Sports)
