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Bird flies in front of a D-backs pitcher and miraculously survives

Bird flies in front of D-backs pitcher and survives

During Wednesday night's Padres-D-backs game, a bird flew between the mound and the plate while Chase Anderson was pitching. Considering D-backs pitchers' history with birds, this must have been one thrill-seeking avian, chasing an adrenaline high so sweet it can only come from narrowly escaping death by baseball: 

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Be careful, bird. Soon just flying below a pitch won't be enough. You'll start getting closer and closer to the strike zone, your little bird heart pumping with a fierce and unknowable joy, and then -- BAM -- you'll live only in Chase Anderson's Twitter avatar

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