A snake slithered by means of the Los Angeles Dodgers’ dugout throughout recreation two of the Nationwide League Championship Sequence on Monday.
The reptile appeared within the high of the fifth inning of the Dodgers’ 7-3 loss to the New York Mets. It wasn’t sufficiently big to place a scare into anybody.
“I hoped it was a rally snake and we turned a rally round proper after that,” the reliever Brent Honeywell mentioned. “However simply one thing to get the boys shifting a little bit completely different [after] every little thing else.”
The snake was wrapped in a towel and eliminated by a member of the grounds crew.
“We’ve had Snakes on a Airplane, Snakes on a Prepare and the most recent Hollywood hit: Snake within the Dugout,” joked Fox’s play-by-play commentator Joe Davis.
The customer didn’t have the impression of the goose that landed on the sector at Dodger Stadium throughout one other playoff recreation, in 2022. (It was additionally wrapped in a towel and brought away; a group consultant instructed the Los Angeles Instances it was launched however didn’t provide particulars.)
That goose was celebrated as a good-luck appeal for the San Diego Padres, who went on to win the division sequence towards their rivals. Padres followers dubbed it the Rally Goose, to not be confused with the St Louis Cardinals’ Rally Squirrel, who scurried throughout residence plate within the metropolis in 2011 and precipitated a commotion. The Cardinals received that playoff sequence and the World Sequence afterward.
Different animals have been much less a auspicious presence. Maybe essentially the most well-known in baseball historical past is a goat who, along with his human companion, was kicked out of a Chicago Cubs recreation in 1945. The human later despatched a telegram to the Cubs’ proprietor declaring a curse on the group. The Cubs misplaced the World Sequence that yr and didn’t win it once more till 2016.
What, precisely, the snake portends is unclear – the Dodgers started scoring runs after its look, however they nonetheless misplaced the sport.
“I acquired on the market, and he’s up within the nook – no person might get him out of there,” Honeywell instructed MLB.com, which identified that the identical participant had additionally encountered an alligator in a Florida minor-league dugout in 2015. “However that’s what we’d like each every now and then – to see some loopy stuff like this.”
The Related Press contributed reporting
