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Indians’ fireworks guy accidentally sets them off after Royals hit home run

Gonna take a while to live this one down.

by Whitney Medworth

Here you have Alex Rios, from the Kansas City Royals, hitting a home run against the Cleveland Indians. All is well. Yay, home run. Except there are fireworks to celebrate his home run, which is not supposed to happen when the Royals hit a home run in Cleveland.

Accidents happen. They really do. He’s really sad so let’s just take it easy on him, okay?

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