Favorite Baseball Story in Awhile

http://hardballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/05/lastings-milledge-got-deked-by-fireworks.html.php

Can't say I've ever seen this one before. In the fourth inning of last night's Pirates-Cubs game, Lastings Milledge launched a ball towards left field. The fireworks fired! The music played! Lastings began to circle the bases and . . . got tagged out between second and third. Wha?

Seems that the ball merely bounced off the wall. You can watch it here. Obviously whoever is in charge of the music and pyrotechnics jumped the gun a little. After the game Milledge admitted that he was watching the sky and not the umpires' signal, saying "I never thought that it didn't go out because the music was playing and the fireworks."

By Craig Calcaterra