Diamondbacks starter Zac Gallen was warming up in the outfield before the team’s game against the A’s on Wednesday at Oakland Coliseum when one of his curveballs hit and killed a bird.
The Bally Sports Arizona broadcast said Gallen “couldn’t wait to tell everybody” and it revealed that the bird is “no longer with us.”The 27-year-old Gallen is 6-1 with a 2.35 ERA in nine starts this season.Zac Gallen struck and killed a bird with a warm-up pitch in Oakland on Wednesday.He has twice finished in the top 10 in National League Cy Young voting with the Diamondbacks.
It has been over 22 years since Randy Johnson, another former Diamondbacks pitcher, blew up a bird with a pitch in a spring training game against the Giants on March 24, 2001.in 2016. “It’s just hard to really put that in perspective. It happened so quick.”“It literally just turned into a cloud of feathers,” former Diamondbacks manager Bob Brenly remembered.
Mike Swanson, a former PR director for the team, talked about how Johnson did not find the situation humorous. “As odd as this may sound, there was a life lost in this,” Swanson told the outlet. “And Randy is a conservationist, and Randy said, ‘I don’t find this very funny.'”
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