Anthony Rizzo Takes Batting Practice With Actual Meatballs

The folks at MLB Fan Cave cooked up the idea for Cubs slugger Anthony Rizzo to take batting practice with actual meatballs. It went just about as you’d expect — the meatballs were unable to withstand the force of Rizzo’s bat, and their fragments went flying everywhere. Hopefully they cleaned up after themselves; returning to a parked car covered in marinara sauce would be alternately baffling and infuriating.

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