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314 subscribers. Subscribed. 3.8K. 931K views 3 years ago. In a spring training game in March 24, 2001, a dove flew by home plate and was hit by Johnson’s screaming fastball, causing an...
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- Did The Bird Die?
- How Fast Was The Pitch?
- Was It A Strike?
- Who Was The batter?
- What Did They Do with The Bird?
- What Did Randy Johnson Think of It?
- Is This The First Time A Bird Was Killed During A Baseball game?
Unfortunately, yes. Video shows feathers falling off the bird, which was likely a mourning dove, as it falls to the ground. Rod Barajas, the catcher at the time, said "all you see is an explosion."
In order to determine the speed of a pitch, the ball needs to reach home plate. Since the bird was hit before the catcher got the ball, there was never a confirmed speed. However, Cronkite News in Arizonaestimated the fastball was around 100 mph.
The pitch was neither a strike nor a ball. There is no rule that states what happens if an animal happens to get in the way of a pitch, so the umpire crew decided to call it a no-pitch because it didn't reach the plate, essentially meaning the pitch never statistically happened.
Not widely known, but the Giants batter was Calvin Murray. He played five seasons in the MLB. You may know his nephew: Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kyler Murray.
After the players realized what had happened, Giants second baseman Jeff Kent went on the field and picked up the bird with his bare hands and pointed it toward Johnson while smiling. He took it back to the dugout, but it is unknown what happened afterward. A grounds crew member then picked and cleaned up the feathers that were on the field.
Johnson wasn't amused with Kent's joke, telling ESPN, "I didn't think it was all that funny." When describing what happened in an interview with Fox Sports Arizona in 2016, Johnson said it was "a blur." "It’s just hard to really put that into perspective. It happened so quick," he said. It seems that Johnson has lightened up about the incident over...
There are more birds that have fallen victim to baseball. ESPN saidformer Yankee outfielder Dave Winfield killed a seagull on a warm-up throw on Aug. 4, 1983 in Toronto. The incident was so serious, Ontario police arrested Winfield after the game and charged him with animal cruelty, but charges were later dropped. It's happened in the minors too. I...
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In 2001, Johnson struck a bird with a pitched ball, resulting in what ABC News described as a "sea of feathers". In a freak accident on March 24, 2001, at Tucson Electric Park, during the 7th inning of a spring training game against the San Francisco Giants, Johnson threw a fastball to Calvin Murray that struck and killed a dove.
23 de mar. de 2021 · Randy Johnson threw a fastball, and a bird disappeared: 20 years since baseball’s wildest moment - The Athletic. By Zach Buchanan. Mar 23, 2021. 124. You’ve seen the video. Everyone has. It’s...
24 de mar. de 2021 · For the 15th anniversary, which was five years ago (20-5=15), Newsweek interviewed Bird Experts about this moment and the eventual conclusion was that Randy Johnson had hit a mourning dove...
- Greg Gottfried
24 de mar. de 2001 · Randy Johnson accomplished a lot over his 22-year Major League career. He won 303 games. He struck out a still-mind-boggling 4,875 batters, second only to Nolan Ryan on the all-time list. Just two years ago, he was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. And, on March 24, 2001, he accidentally exploded a bird:
24 de mar. de 2017 · Arizona's Randy Johnson was on the mound. And then something equal parts unlikely and horrifying happened. Johnson killed a bird with a pitch. Last summer, FOX Sports Arizona published a...
