Despite suffering an on-the-job injury earlier in the day, Chicago Cubs right-hander Carlos Zambrano kept his appointment to throw out the first pitch at the Chicago Bandits professional softball game Thursday night.
As the humorous and slightly scary video shows, Zambrano ducked out of the way during an interview when he realized a foul ball was coming for his head.
Zambrano can be viewed telling a story about a softball pitcher from his native Venezuela, an Olympian, who had struck him out three or four times when ? whatever, it's not important because LOOK OUT, CARLOS!
What a "Cubbie Occurrence" getting hit would have been, were it not for his ? as Zambrano put it:
"Baseball instincts."
Thankfully, Big Z used his Spidey Sense and apparently heard the ball coming. It made a ruckus upon impact, briefly stunning everyone in the area. Zambrano, though he kept checking behind himself for more foul balls, laughed it off.
You know what we can all laugh off? That shirt he's wearing!
It's some kind of fashion violation to wear a shirt bearing your own nickname, especially when you're a Major League Baseball player. Was he selling them out of the back of his SUV? No kidding, you're "Big Z." Instead of that, it might as well say "Big Goof."
But, out of respect for his evading the foul ball while having a sore back, let's check a frame-by-frame replay:
"Venezuela strike outs, blah blah blah, Olympics, blah blah blah."
Hark?
Look! Up in the sky!
Whoa! It's like when one of them asteroids almost hits the Earth, but we don't know about it until after it passes by. (Michael Bay has done less with more in Hollywood.)
Hey, everything is cool when the baseball instincts take over. But where were Zambrano's instincts when he was getting dressed?
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