CLEVELAND -An unintentional fireworks display greeted Alex Rios after his home run Tuesday night in Cleveland. TV cameras showed a distraught fireworks tech hiding his face after he accidentally triggered the display. That sort of thing is normally saved for home runs by the home team!

 

TV cameras caught the distraught fireworks technician with his hands clutching his head after his quick-trigger mistake, which prompted a chorus of boos from the small crowd.

“It was nice,” Rios joked about the unexpected explosion. “It’s the first time that’s happened to me in a road game. When I heard all the screams, it crossed my mind that they somehow called it foul. It shook me a little bit. It caught me off-guard. When I was rounding second, I heard people screaming and that’s when I thought something happened, but it’s all good.”

The Royals won 2-0.