Carly Rae Jepsen spent hours, upon hours practicing her pitching skills before executing what is arguably the WORST first pitch in baseball history.

Just kidding! She didn’t practice at all — at least that’s what she implied to our photog. If you missed it … CRJ threw the first pitch at a Tampa Bay Rays game Sunday and it was HORRIBLE x1000. So when our photog asked Carly, at LAX today, if she practiced beforehand … she said, “Clearly.”

But watch the clip … something makes us think she was really trying to say — “No. No I did not.”

Now here’s 22 more terrible pitches, including Mariah Carey and Baba Booey’s. After watching, we’re convinced Carly still takes the cake … But really, people just have the most irrational idea of what’s popular. This isn’t exactly startling news but at least the little girl is cute. Let her throw a lame ball. You expected her to as soon as she walked out there anyway.

Hints the saying: you throw like a girl. I rest my case.