By way of Prep Rally comes the least consequential moment of fastball-on-bird violence in baseball history.
Watch in squinting wonder as Springfield Sacred Heart-Griffin High School pitcher Ryne Elvers tries to shut down City Series rivals Springfield Southeast High at Lanphier Park with a fastball so fierce that were it to ever hypothetically strike an animal mid-flight, it would shred and splatter the poor thing in a pillow fight explosion like so much Randy Johnson. It would not have any reasonable chance of hitting a bird and having the bird just kinda keep going and be fine.
Sophomore Ryne Elvers pitched 5 2/3 innings to get his third win in four decisions. Elvers also pulled a Randy Johnson when, while delivering an 0-1 pitch to Robbie Cooper in the fifth inning, Elvers plucked a bird in flight. The bird managed to fly off, minus some feathers.
“OOH! HIT DA BIRD” – concerned onlooker
Thank God he didn’t throw a change-up, it would’ve just landed on the bird’s back and flown away.
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So if the ball lands on a bird’s back, and the bird flies outside the strike zone, but then is attacked by a larger bird who grabs the ball and drops it in the catcher’s mitt, is that still a strike? Because that’s how I’m going to play it.
Dave Winfield belched up a feather.
Another vegan day, huh Brendan?
1. I didn’t say anything about being vegan or anything about animal rights or cruelty or anything in this post, it just has an animal in the story.
2. Every day is a vegan day for me.
3. How do you know I’m vegan but think my name is Brendan
Brandon – He types using vanity license plates and they were all out of “Brandon” ones, so it was either “Another vegan day, huh Brendan?” or “Another vegan day, huh Brandywine?”
Wow, I completely fucked that one up.