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Great American Ball Park Smokestacks Catch Fire During Giants/Reds Game

In one of the most truly bizarre scenes you’ll ever see at a baseball game, one of the smokestacks located in right center field of Great American Ball Park caught fire during Friday night’s game between the San Francisco Giants and Cincinnati Reds. It was also Star Wars night at GABP, so one can only assume that the Sith had something to do with this.

Sometime around the fifth inning, fireworks began going off in the middle of the game before black smoke began pouring out of the right smokestack. Fox Sports Ohio’s Thom Brennaman said during the television broadcast that the fireworks were shot off on purpose to get them out of the smokestacks before the fire set them off.