Troy Percival has only a vague idea of what a Chukar is, even after the former Angels closer was hired on Thursday to manage 26 of them with the Idaho Falls team in the independent Pioneer League this season.
“I think it’s some kind of bird,” said Percival, who was famously on the mound for the final out of the Angels’ 2002 World Series-clinching Game 7 victory over the San Francisco Giants. “But that’s an ancillary deal to me. It could have been a bowling ball for a mascot. It didn’t matter.