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Chris Capuano nearly killed a dragonfly with a pitch

The world’s luckiest dragonfly should stay away from the area between home plate and the pitcher’s mound.

We all know that dragonflies love baseball. This is the tale of a dragonfly that loved baseball too much (via The Score)

The dragonfly decided simply being at Yankee Stadium wasn’t enough and wanted to get up close to the action, and came a few milliseconds and a few millimeters from being blasted into oblivion by Capuano’s pitch.

Here is your obligatory video of Randy Johnson blowing a pigeon into smithereens:

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