Chris Pratt heartwarmingly matched baseball jerseys with his 10-year-old son Jack when they took in a Dodgers game together Sunday.
The Guardians Of The Galaxy star had been invited to throw the opening pitch, kicking off the proceedings as the Dodgers faced off against the Cincinnati Reds.
He and Jack attended the game – and the attendant Christian Faith And Family Day – wearing matching Dodgers jerseys with ‘PRATT’ written on the back.
Jack is Chris’ only child by his ex-wife Anna Faris, whom he was married to from 2009 until their split in 2017 and eventual divorce in 2018.
Now Chris is married to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s daughter Katherine, with whom he shares two daughters – Lyla, two, and Eloise, one.
Fun in the sun: Chris Pratt heartwarmingly matched baseball jerseys with his 10-year-old son Jack when they took in a Dodgers game together Sunday
Pride of place: The Guardians Of The Galaxy star had been invited to throw the opening pitch, kicking off the proceedings as the Dodgers faced off against the Cincinnati Reds
So sweet: He and Jack attended the game – and the attendant Christian Faith And Family Day – wearing matching Dodgers jerseys with ‘PRATT’ written on the back
Chris treated his more than 44 million Instagram followers to an album documenting his day at Dodger Stadium, including photos and footage of his pitch.
He turned the gig into a sweet bonding experience with Jack, who posed with him for a string of pictures in their coordinated jerseys.
‘What a day! Jack and I got to hit the mound together, eat our bodyweight in Dodger Dogs and delivered the game opening announcement!’ Chris wrote in the caption.
‘Thank you @claytonkershaw for asking me to throw yesterday’s first pitch for faith and family day, what an honor! Let’s go Dodgers!’
Christian Faith And Family Day was thrown this past Sunday for the first time since 2019, marking its grand post-pandemic return.
Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers announced the relaunch in late May – on the heels of an explosive controversy over the team’s annual Pride Night.
This year’s Pride Night faced a torrent of backlash from conservatives over the planned involvement of the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence, a drag group known for dressing as nuns and making jokes about Christianity.
The Sisters were slated to get an award at the Dodger Stadium event, hailing their activism and fundraising for causes like combating AIDS.
Details: Jack is Chris’ only child by his ex-wife Anna Faris, whom he was married to from 2009 until their split in 2017 and eventual divorce in 2018
Family man: Now Chris is married to Arnold Schwarzenegger ‘s daughter Katherine , with whom he shares two daughters – Lyla, two, and Eloise, one
Making it happen: Chris treated his more than 44 million Instagram followers to an album documenting his day at Dodger Stadium, including photos and footage of his pitch
Making it happen: Chris thanked Clayton Kershaw (left) ‘for asking me to throw yesterday’s first pitch for faith and family day, what an honor! Let’s go Dodgers!’
However, because of their irreverence to Christianity, the decision to include them in Pride Night set off a public furor, with scandalized denunciations pouring in from such figures as US Senator Marco Rubio.
As the anger against the drag queens gathered steam, the planning process for Pride Night disintegrated into a fiasco in which the Sisters were disinvited because of right-wing blowback, then re-invited because of left-wing blowback.
Clayton advised the Dodgers brass to publicly declare that Christian Faith And Family Day was being reinstated.
‘I think we were always going to do Christian Faith Day this year, but I think the timing of our announcement was sped up,’ he told the Los Angeles Times.
‘Picking a date and doing those different things was part of it as well. Yes, it was in response to the highlighting of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.’
The heartthrob clarified that he would not boycott Pride Night, saying: ‘This has nothing to do with the LGBTQ community or Pride or anything like that. This is simply a group that was making fun of a religion, that I don’t agree with.’
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