Gender Reveal Goes Wrong When Grandpa Takes An Exploding Pitch To The Face

Talk about a foul ball. 

A baseball -themed gender reveal party in California went off-base on Saturday when mom’s pitch sailed past dad who didn’t swing and hit the grandpa-to-be right in the face, where it erupted in a cloud of blue smoke. 

“We wanted to do something a little special to tell everyone at the same time,” expectant mother Brittany McCauley told People. “We didn’t know the gender ourselves, so it was a surprise for everyone.”

It was special all right: 

Dad-to-be Max McCauley was supposed to hit the pitch, which would erupt in a cloud of blue or pink to “reveal” the gender of the baby. 

Instead of exploding off the bat, like an Aaron Judge moonshot , it burst on Scott McCauley’s face like an exploding cigar in an old cartoon.

He seems to be just fine, only a little blue about the experience: 

“Biggest fail ,” Brittany wrote on Instagram. “But we’re having a BOY!!”

 Let’s hope this kid has more coordination than his parents. 

Here’s the moment of reveal one last time, up close, and painful: