Spring training is all about opportunities and oddities. The extent to which the latter goes sometimes can be quite absurd, and we’d certainly put this moment from Friday’s Twins-Phillies game into that category.

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What starts out as a hard hit, but seemingly routine foul ball off the bat of Twins slugger Miguel Sano, quickly turned into baseball’s version of a trick shot when it took one hop and landed in a perfectly placed garbage can just inside the stands.

Miguel Sano’s foul ball headed right for the garbage. (MLB.TV) More

Yes, it’s in there. Retrieve it at your own risk.

It’s one of those moments you’re almost surprised doesn’t happen more often in spring training or even the regular season. But it’s also a moment that wouldn’t happen again if Sano or anyone else tried 10,000 times. The pitch, the swing, the bounce and the can all aligned here, with the latter essentially robbing fans of a souvenir.

Well, temporarily at least. We’re guessing that someone eventually dug through the trash looking for that prized baseball. We’d rather not imagine the condition it was in, but the journey and story behind it should make it worthwhile.

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