Baseball fields are huge and hitting a baseball to a specific point is difficult, so a line drive directly to a spot as tiny as the lens of a camera has a pretty low probability. Never tell Adam Jones the odds.
Adam Jones obliterates camera with foul ball
ESPN is just going to have to send him a bill for this one.
MLB.com
That was ESPN’s robocam -- emphasis on “was” -- that Jones smashed up with his foul ball. Never again will it move around behind the plate to find us the greatest of angles for each play, each pitch, each post-at-bat reactionary face from both batter and pitcher.
We miss you already, robocam.
