At dinner, discussion turned to hitting birds with baseball pitches. Seems unlikely, but apparently it has happened fairly recently:
In a freak accident on March 24, 2001, during the 7th inning of a spring training game against the San Francisco Giants, [Randy] Johnson threw a fastball that struck and killed a dove. The unlucky bird swooped across the infield just as Johnson was releasing the ball. After being struck by the pitch, the bird landed dead amid a "sea of feathers." The official call was "no pitch."
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