viper91180
06-21-2004, 06:02 PM
really makes you appreciate the power these guys have...
http://members.cox.net/msgtgumby/birdpitch.zip
The summary of Randy Johnson's game looked like this: struck out eight and killed one.
The hard-throwing Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher was impressive as usual in his final spring-training outing last Saturday, but he drew more attention than usual because one of his fastballs managed to intersect dramatically with the flight path of a dove.
A 95-mile-an-hour pitch he threw in the seventh inning hit the bird as it flew in front of batter Calvin Murray during a exhibition game in Tucson, Ariz., against the San Francisco Giants.
"The bird just exploded. Feathers everywhere. Poof," said Murray, who reckoned the mishap was a one-in-a-trillion shot.
http://members.cox.net/msgtgumby/birdpitch.zip
The summary of Randy Johnson's game looked like this: struck out eight and killed one.
The hard-throwing Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher was impressive as usual in his final spring-training outing last Saturday, but he drew more attention than usual because one of his fastballs managed to intersect dramatically with the flight path of a dove.
A 95-mile-an-hour pitch he threw in the seventh inning hit the bird as it flew in front of batter Calvin Murray during a exhibition game in Tucson, Ariz., against the San Francisco Giants.
"The bird just exploded. Feathers everywhere. Poof," said Murray, who reckoned the mishap was a one-in-a-trillion shot.