diff --git a/spacy/util.py b/spacy/util.py
index 58f951f86..8335a4fcc 100644
--- a/spacy/util.py
+++ b/spacy/util.py
@@ -1361,11 +1361,12 @@ def check_bool_env_var(env_var: str) -> bool:
 def _pipe(docs, proc, kwargs):
     if hasattr(proc, "pipe"):
         yield from proc.pipe(docs, **kwargs)
-    # We added some args for pipe that __call__ doesn't expect.
-    kwargs = dict(kwargs)
-    for arg in ["batch_size"]:
-        if arg in kwargs:
-            kwargs.pop(arg)
-    for doc in docs:
-        doc = proc(doc, **kwargs)
-        yield doc
+    else:
+        # We added some args for pipe that __call__ doesn't expect.
+        kwargs = dict(kwargs)
+        for arg in ["batch_size"]:
+            if arg in kwargs:
+                kwargs.pop(arg)
+        for doc in docs:
+            doc = proc(doc, **kwargs)
+            yield doc