
To our knowledge, birds and baseball games had been able to coexist this season without incident up until May 17 when Diamondbacks pitcher Zac Gallen accidentally killed a bird with a warmup pitch.
It was a freak accident reminiscent of Randy Johnson’s bird-killing pitch in 2001. But certainly we would not see another baseball-related bird death at an MLB stadium again this season, right?! Yeah, so much for that. We couldn’t even go a week without a bird death.