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Throwing out the first ball? Better call Saul! – Winnipeg Free Press

Throwing out the first ball? Better call Saul! – Winnipeg Free Press

There’s the pitch… and everything’s good, man.

Actor Bob Odenkirk, better known as the slimy, pathetic New Mexico lawyer Saul Goodman involved in a drug gang, in an award-winning American TV series The bad news and prequel/sequel Better call Saulthrew out the first pitch at Blue Cross Park on Saturday night before the Goldeyes took on the Sioux City Explorers in an American Association of Independent Professional Baseball game.

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Actor Bob Odenkirk throws out one of two ceremonial first pitches to open the game at Blue Cross Park Saturday night.

Odenkirk is shooting in the city Nobody 2the sequel to the locally shot 2021 Netflix action/thriller hit in which he co-starred with Connie Nielsen as married couple Hutch and Becca Mansell, whose suburban lives are turned upside down when thieves break into their home one night.

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Better Call Saul star Bob Odenkirk waves to the crowd in Winnipeg prior to the Winnipeg-Sioux City game on Saturday at Blue Cross Park.

Production is expected to wrap sometime in September.

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