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Minor-leaguer escapes tag after bizarre game of chicken with pitcher

Published Nov. 15, 2016 3:05 p.m. ET

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Brett Smiley

The game of baseball never ceases to produce incredible highlights and unusual plays. Another such oddity occurred on Sunday when the Birmingham Barons (White Sox Double-A affiliate) faced the Chattanooga Lookouts (Minnesota Twins).

In the bottom of the first inning, Barons outfielder Courtney Hawkins chopped a Ryan Eades pitch back toward the mound where Eades fielded it cleanly. And then this showdown happened:

That's probably the last time Eades engages in a game of walking pickle. He got charged with an error and later acknowledged that he bungled the play:

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