CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 10: Manager Terry Francona #17 of the Cleveland Indians watches as his team takes on the Chicago White Sox at U.S. Cellular Field on April 10, 2014 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images) Indians manager Terry Francona (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)

CLEVELAND (92.3 The Fan) – Typically, fireworks are reserved for the home team.

That wasn’t the case on Tuesday night, when Alex Rios of the visiting Kansas City Royals smacked a solo bomb to the home run porch in left field at Progressive Field, giving KC a 2-0 lead on Josh Tomlin and the Indians.

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As Rios rounded the bases, a set of fireworks fired off from the parking garage beyond center field, a sight typically seen after homers hit by the Tribe. The unfriendly fire led to mass confusion in the stands and in the dugouts.

Indians manager Terry Francona was perplexed by the misfire on many fronts.

“It shocked the hell out of me,” he said prior to Wednesday’s game. “It actually made me jump. I hope that guy’s not in charge of the Fourth of July fireworks, it might be in August. In a moment where you probably weren’t very happy, that was a little levity. I thought his reaction was pretty funny.”

However, the most interesting part of the honest mistake by the firework guy was this particular revelation by Francona:

“I didn’t know they shot off fireworks when we hit a home run,” he said. “I didn’t even know. I either get so excited or… I didn’t know. I asked [bench coach Brad Mills], ‘Do we [do that]?’ He looked at me like [really?].

“I don’t remember ever seeing or hearing it. You learn something new every day.”

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