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Charlie Morton's curveball had the Diamondbacks' Josh Rojas falling over on a wild strikeout swing

Diamondbacks shortstop Josh Rojas is among the few players having a half-way decent season for Arizona, but you’d never know that by watching his swing at Charlie Morton’s curveball.

He nearly fell out of his cleats.

The Atlanta Braves and Arizona Diamondbacks were wrapping up their four-game series with a matinee matchup on Thursday, and the Braves starter began his afternoon by absolutely bullying Rojas.

On the seventh pitch of the at-bat, Morton unleashed a curveball inside that came awfully close to hitting Rojas on the leg. The movement on the ball was so sudden and violent that Rojas — who was probably looking fastball — couldn’t stop his swing and fell over in the process. He ended up bracing himself on the ground and staring back at Morton like, “Why me?”

Here's the video

And a closer look:

That pitch was just so rude. It was the kind of pitch that has me wondering how batters are even physically capable of hitting big-league pitching. It shouldn’t be possible.

Fans were also impressed with that devastating curveball.

This was how Twitter reacted

Poor Josh. That’s going to be a tough one to come back from.

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