Nine innings, 99 nuggets: Joey Chestnut taking on new challenge at Dodgers-Giants

Joey Chestnut is going backmost location connected Friday, and he's coming for a caller nutrient challenge.

The competitory eating fable volition effort to devour 99 Impossible Foods plant-based chickenhearted nuggets successful 9 innings astatine the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers showdown astatine Oracle Park. Chestnut volition beryllium joined astatine the Glove by a contest-winning instrumentality who volition vie with him.

"I've done a batch of chaotic challenges implicit the years, but 99 nuggets successful 9 innings is simply a caller 1 for me, and I'm fired up. Doing it backmost successful the Bay wherever I grew up, astatine Oracle Park with the Giants, makes it adjacent better," Chestnut said. "I'm a large fan, and it feels similar a location game! ... I've been training, I'm feeling good, truthful 99 should spell down nary problem. Honestly, conscionable talking astir it is making maine hungry. ... I anticipation they've got a fewer extras ready."

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Chestnut, 41, is wide regarded arsenic the king of the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest, winning the lawsuit a grounds 17 times. However, his résumé doesn't extremity there.

He holds implicit 50 satellite records, including devouring 182 chickenhearted wings successful 30 minutes, 141 hard-boiled eggs successful 8 minutes, 384 gyozas successful 10 minutes and 102 tamales successful 12 minutes. During halftime of a Cleveland Cavaliers crippled successful March 2024, Chestnut competed successful a pierogi eating contest and promptly ate 39 successful 2 minutes, beating the combined people (22) of 3 different contestants.

Therefore, it feels harmless to accidental that 99 chickenhearted nuggets are going down connected Friday.