From Fenway to the fairway

Mark Wahlberg: likes baseball, loves golf. The hometown star, who is in town to film the Micky Ward biopic “The Fighter,’’ stopped by Fenway Park yesterday to throw out a ceremonial first pitch, but ditched the ballpark before the game even started to spend the day golfing at Andover Country Club. Wahlberg said he’d catch the Sox highlights on TV when he was done on the green. To be accurate, Wahlberg, a lefty, threw out two first pitches yesterday. His first attempt was high and wide, missing Dustin Pedroia altogether. The actor had predicted as much. “I’ll throw it out of the [expletive] park before I throw it too short,’’ he told us before walking onto the field. Boston-bred funny guy Mike O’Malley also threw out a ceremonial pitch yesterday - his went to David Ortiz. O’Malley, who’ll appear in the Matt Damon movie “The Informant!’’ this fall, stayed on to host Fenway’s postgame Picnic in the Park celebration. Other familiar faces at the ballpark yesterday included Foo Fighters manager John Silva, who flew to Boston after spending his July 4 with the band at the White House, “True Jackson, VP’’ producer Dan Kopelman, and “Star Trek’’ director J.J. Abrams, who sat in Tom Werner’s seat for the Seattle showdown. Abrams recently told the Globe that he and wife Katie McGrath, who went to Simmons College, are huge Red Sox fans. Perhaps that’s why his sci-fi series “Fringe’’ is set around the Hub.