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Dragonfly dodges pitch during MLB game, lives to tell about it

Updated Mar. 5, 2020 1:03 a.m. ET

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Chris Capuano nearly pulled a Randy Johnson move Saturday afternoon.

Johnson famously killed a bird with a fastball during 2001 spring training with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Capuano, an ex-Boston Red Sox pitcher making his first start for the New York Yankees, almost did the same thing to a dragonfly at Yankee Stadium.

The bug was inches away from being struck by Capuano's pitch but whizzed past the ball safely --€” unlike the bird Johnson struck.

The Yankees didn't have the same luck as the dragonfly. Capuano allowed just two runs in six innings of work, but the Bombers fell 6-4 to the Toronto Blue Jays.

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