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What Ohioans Are Reading: Vivek Ramaswamy’s Batting Cage Bust

September 14, 2026

Columbus, Ohio — Vivek Ramaswamy struck out, and Ohioans heard about it. An Ohioan who was present at the batting cages at the same time as Ramaswamy even took to Instagram to make sure Ohioans knew the pitch machine was on the slowest setting and he still only made 5 out of 25 pitches.

Here’s what Ohioans are reading about Vivek Ramaswamy’s failed outing at the batting cages:

Print:

• The Washington Sun: Swing and a Miss: Ramaswamy Deletes Viral Batting Cage Video

• MS Now: Friday’s Campaign Round-Up: Republican Vivek Ramaswamy this week posted a video of him at a batting cage

• Raw Story: ‘Oh no’: Vivek Ramaswamy humiliated after posting his ‘terrible’ baseball swing 

• The Comeback: ‘Never seen anything like it’: Disbelief mounts after Vivek Ramaswamy releases ‘humiliating’ video

• TiffinOhio.net: Vivek Ramaswamy deletes mocked batting-cage video; eyewitness says he made contact on just 5 of 25 pitches

• The Daily Beast: MAGA Candidate Brutally Mocked Over Baseball Swing

• Mediaite: ‘Uncoordinated 6-Yr-Old’: Vivek Ramaswamy Roasted by Critics for Baseball Swing in Awkward Campaign Video

Online: 

@KFILE: Vivek Ramaswamy has an Instagram video at batting cages and presenting the swing without comment

@3YearLetterman: oh no

@AndyDowning33:“crush crime in our cities” *hits a soft liner to first base*

@KeithOlbermann: Somebody he pays money to told him “no, no, you look GREAT”

@ChrisCillizza: This man has NEVER swung a bat before

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