12/03/24
October 06, 2011
Squirrel Crosses Plate During Cards/Phillies: A squirrel ran across home plate while Roy Oswalt was pitching during the Phillies/Cardinals game Wednesday night. The pitch was called a ball and Oswalt's protest that it shouldn't have counted was denied. "I got distracted. I didn't really know that would be a pitch," Oswalt said. "If it ran up the guy's leg, would he have called the pitch for a strike? It's hard to say."
The squirrel was unavailable for comment.
Classic.
posted by Joey Michaels at 02:19 PM on October 06, 2011
brave little critter.
posted by dviking at 04:49 PM on October 06, 2011
What if a ferret did that at a Yorkshire cricket match?
posted by beaverboard at 05:32 PM on October 06, 2011
...or a squirrel did it at The Great British Bake Off?
posted by Joey Michaels at 06:36 PM on October 06, 2011
Good thing most of the players on the field were wearing cups - that guy was after NUTS!!!
posted by Howard_T at 10:44 PM on October 06, 2011
Someone created @BuschSquirrel on Twitter. It has 15,460 followers.
posted by jjzucal at 09:08 AM on October 07, 2011
The box score should read as follows....
W - Jackson (1-0) L - Oswalt (0-1) S - Squirrel (1)