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Guiseppi CH.com Moderator CH.com Alumnus Offline San Diego to Florida 05-16-2011 Posts: 12063 SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA USA Gender:	Re: One in a Million Pitch Reply #1 - Aug 8^th, 2010 at 5:34pm Oh my!!!!
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JustNotRight CH.com Sponsor Offline CH version 15.0.8 member since 2005 aka GingerS224 Posts: 1300 Wilkes-Barre, Pa (USA) Gender:	Re: One in a Million Pitch Reply #3 - Aug 8^th, 2010 at 8:11pm Would love to know what the ref. call was on that one. How many pitchers hit a foul instead of the batter??? "Clean up at Home Plate, better bring a bigger brush and an industrial sized dust pan for this one guys!"
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Re: One in a Million Pitch
Reply #7 - Aug 9^th, 2010 at 7:54pm

NOT a fake, the pitcher was Randy Johnson, article from USA today!

Johnson kills bird with pitch

By Ted S. Warren, AP
A groundskeeper at Tucson Electric Park picks up feathers Saturday after a pitch by Arizona's Randy Johnson hit and killed a bird.

TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — A pitch by Randy Johnson hit and killed a dove flying in front of home plate.

The lethal pitch came during the seventh inning of the Arizona Diamondbacks' 10-5 victory against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday.

The bird flew over the catcher Rod Barajas' head and landed a few feet from the plate amid a sea of feathers.

"I'm sitting there waiting for it, and I'm expecting to catch the thing, and all you see is an explosion," Barajas said. "It's crazy. There's still feathers down there."

Johnson, the NL Cy Young winner and perhaps the game's hardest thrower, was not amused.

"I didn't think it was all that funny," he said.

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JustNotRight CH.com Sponsor Offline CH version 15.0.8 member since 2005 aka GingerS224 Posts: 1300 Wilkes-Barre, Pa (USA) Gender:	Re: One in a Million Pitch Reply #8 - Aug 9^th, 2010 at 8:26pm Thanks Joe ! Now for the big question, What was the ref's call on the play ???
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Re: One in a Million Pitch
Reply #9 - Aug 9^th, 2010 at 8:42pm

The call on that particular play ended up being a do-over.

There are several places in the MLB rulebook that esentially say that any situation not accounted for in the rules is decided by the umpires themselves. The umpires in that game realized that not counting the pitch would be the fairest thing to do since the bird simply interfered with the pitch. Calling a ball would be unfair because the pitch may have been headed toward the strike zone before the bird flew by and calling a strike would be unfair since the ball wasn't able to reach the plate.

But damn.....what a pitch...... Grin

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