Take me out to the ballgame

A color photograph of a baseball game. In the foreground, along the third base line, is a small black squirrel. In the background, blurry, an Oriole player is in the batter's box with the bat on his shoulder. The squirrel looks like it's watching the game.
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A color photograph of a baseball game. In the foreground, along the third base line, is a small black squirrel. In the background, blurry, an Oriole player is in the batter's box with the bat on his shoulder. The squirrel looks like it's watching the game.
source: https://defector.com/squirrel...

A squirrel got onto the field at last night's Tigers/Orioles game and led the ground crew on a merry chase. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch... (the whole video is a delight—the announcers are having a great time—but the whole Detroit ground crew trying to catch the squirrel and getting roundly booed starts at 9:20).

"'At one point I thought he was going to go into the batter’s box, see what was going on,' said Orioles manager Craig Albernaz. 'He had a great view of the game.'

"Eventually, the visibly tired squirrel was smothered in a towel and removed from the field of play, to the audible derision of the pro-squirrel crowd. The squirrel also quietly had some supporters in uniform. 'I wanted, personally, for him to stay on the field,' Orioles 3B Coby Mayo said. 'It makes the game more interesting.'"

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