Last night, St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher, Adam Wainwright struggled in his outing against the Kansas City Royals. Although he was not on his A game, he did channel a bit of his inner Randy Johnson. Most baseball fans can recall the infamous Randy Johnson pitch from 2001 Spring Training that hit a bird on its way to the plate. It was a one in a million instance that is very rare in the MLB.
One of Wainwright's 102 pitches almost had the same encounter with a bird as Johnson's. Yet, in this instance, the bird flew by just in time to miss the ball coming its way. Luckily for the Kansas City bird, its feathers stayed intact, unlike the bird who was hit by Johnson.
It only makes sense that Johnson, as a Diamondback actually hit the bird; because if Wainwright, a Red Bird would have? That would have been barbaric.
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