After saying goodbye to their 13-year-old bat canine, Layla, the Clearwater Threshers debuts their new bat canine and goes viral for performing the unsuitable sort of responsibility on the baseball discipline.
The Clearwater Threshers’ latest bat canine, 10-month-old yellow Labrador Lucy Might, is the sister of the crew’s earlier bat canine, Layla.
And the pooch made positive her debut on Friday, August 23, was as memorable and messy as attainable!
Movies of Lucy Might’s debut have been going viral on-line. As a matter of reality, the video ESPN uploaded on TikTok has virtually one million likes and eight.5 million views.
Throughout her viral debut, Lucy Might was despatched to retrieve a bat. However as an alternative, ran across the discipline and into the opposing crew’s dugout.
After an unsuccessful try, Lucy Might was despatched again to the sector to retrieve one other bat. Nonetheless, she went again to operating across the discipline, however this time with a shock!
It is likely to be her inexperience or her first-day jitters! However Lucy Might, as an alternative of retrieving the bat, out of the blue answered the decision of Mom Nature on the sector.
Followers had been supportive of no matter responsibility Lucy Might was performing within the discipline as the gang began cheering for her.
After Lucy did her enterprise, her proprietor, Andrew Davis obtained her again over to the Threshers’ dugout. In the meantime, the crew’s promotions and recreation entertaining supervisor, Dominic Repper, cleaned up after the pooch.
Andrew Davis, Lucy Might’s proprietor, tells WTVT-TV, “When she squatted, I undoubtedly went into panic mode.” He continues, “I believe the phrase my fiancée and I used was ‘mortified.’”
“We sort of had a sense that one thing particular would occur along with her and that it will be a enjoyable occasion, however I don’t assume we might have imagined that it will get taken to that degree,” Repper stated.
After the incident, the Clearwater Threshers defended Lucy Might and ensured everybody that she is “1000% conserving her job”.
“Couldn’t be mad at this candy face if we tried,” the crew wrote on X (previously Twitter). “Lucy Might is simply 10 months previous! She jumped into coaching when Layla needed to step down, and regardless that she doesn’t have it fairly proper, she is 1000% KEEPING her job.”
The crew additionally stated, “She’s obtained a lot of time till our dwelling opener in April, and we all know she’ll get it excellent quickly”.
