Minor league baseball is the gift that keeps on giving. Not only do they have some of the weirdest promotions you’ll ever see at a sporting event, but some of those promotions go awry and lead to livestock marching across the entire length of the outfield in the middle of a game.
That’s what happened during Thursday night’s Class A game between the Batavia Muckdogs (Marlins) and the State College Spikes (Cardinals). An in-game promotion from the Spikes featured Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey riding a dog around the field herding sheep — which sounds way more entertaining than a minor league baseball game, if we’re being totally honest. During the sixth inning, somebody accidentally let one of those sheep go rogue, and boy did it go rogue.
The animal took off and wandered all the way from the left field corner to the right field corner, where it was eventually wrangled by a half-dozen staff members who had “we’re not being paid enough for this” written all over them.
If you’re looking for info about the rest of the game, this is where we part ways. I’m too busy watching Whiplash the Cowboy Monkey videos to care.
