A hard groundball off the bat of Rougned Odor in the fourth inninng Monday couldn’t make a defiant pigeon fly to safety from the infield dirt at Angel Stadium.
Maybe the bird liked its seat between first and second base. Its definitely didn’t take any grief from umpires.
But it met its match from the manager called “Banny,” an obvious play off his last name that when shortened isn’t far removed from a kind of rooster — the banty rooster.
Texas Rangers manager Jeff Banister picked up the pigeon during the middle of the fourth inning and disappeared into the dugout tunnel with it after it had refused to vacate the infield to the safety of a wire or ledge.