Watch James McCann hit a foul ball and make a bird explode

Dane Carbaugh

Watch James McCann hit a foul ball and make a bird explode image

One always hopes to have as little environmental impact as possible, especially when, say, playing a baseball game. Unfortunately for Tigers catcher James McCann that wasn't the case, as a foul ball shucked off during spring training wound up making a bird explode.

McCann hit the bird, who was sitting on the top line of the foul ball netting, after tipping a pitch off his bat.

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The incident naturally draws similarities between the time Randy Johnson hit a bird mid-pitch during spring training in 2001.

Poor bird. 

 

(Source: Detroit Free Press)

Dane Carbaugh