Minor league baseball team's fireworks go awry and send fans scrambling for cover in viral video

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It's a little late in July for a fireworks mishap — those are typically centered around the Fourth of July weekend festivities — but a minor league baseball team's pyro display went sideways in the most literal way imaginable on Thursday.

The Richmond Flying Squirrels — Double-A affiliate of the San Francisco Giants — were hosting a fireworks display on Thursday night after their 3-1 loss to the Hartford Yard Goats.

I think there's a compelling case for benching pre-planned fireworks if you lose, but that's for another time. Despite the L, the Flying Squirrels went ahead with their display over CarMax Park, and the aftermath has been making the rounds on social media.

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Now, most importantly, no one was hurt, which is, personally, how I like my fireworks mishaps.

If we're going to have them, let's keep it safe.

Richmond, Virginia's CarMax Park — home of the Double-A Richmond Flying Squirrels — was the site of a viral fireworks mishap on Thursday. (Photo by Bradley Rex/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

Sometimes I see videos of fireworks mishaps, and it can be a little hard to see when something goes wrong, because there's just so much happening.

But in this case, I think we can definitely say that the first sign of a problem was when some of those fireworks started traveling parallel to the ground.

That's suboptimal for many reasons.

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