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A post-game fireworks display at CarMax Park misfired Thursday night when pyrotechnics began tracking parallel to the ground, with fireballs reaching the bleachers and sending a portion of the crowd toward the concourse.
The Richmond Flying Squirrels, the San Francisco Giants' Double-A affiliate, had absorbed a 3-1 loss to the Hartford Yard Goats before the evening took a second turn.
What happened at CarMax Park Video of the malfunction spread across social media after the game.
The footage made the problem legible in a way that pyrotechnics incidents sometimes do not: the first visible indicator was fireworks traveling horizontally rather than skyward. The off-axis trajectory was not subtle.
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