Clearwater Threshers 13-year-old bat canine, Layla, retires after retrieving her final bat through the workforce’s recreation in opposition to Fort Myers on Friday, July 19.
Layla is a white Labrador Retriever and has been retrieving baseball bats for the Clearwater Threshers for six years.
“She has simply sort of been in my proper pocket for 13 years,” Layla’s dad, Andrew Davis, tells FOX 13.
Davis adopted Layla 13 years in the past. And he by no means imagined the issues her pooch would’ve completed in all these years.
Again in 2018, Layla grew to become an web sensation after a video of her retrieving a can of beer from the fridge went viral.
And who would’ve thought that that viral video would truly be Layla’s ticket to changing into a baseball bat canine?
“As soon as it took off there was no stopping it,” Davis stated. “I by no means would’ve anticipated to have a well-known canine.”
WMNF Radio reveals that after the video went viral, Davis reached out to Dominic Repper, Threshers supervisor of promotions and recreation leisure, and confirmed him the video.
“After we first contacted the Threshers, Layla didn’t even know what a baseball bat was,” Davis tells WMNF Radio.
So, Davis took Layla to native baseball fields and taught her decide up a bat and convey it to the dugout.
Layla, who used to coach alongside athletes at Webber Worldwide College when Davis was a scholar on the faculty, mastered the artwork of retrieving baseball bats and acquired signed to the Clearwater Threshers.
Nonetheless, after being on the job for six years, Davis seen that Layla was beginning to decelerate throughout video games.
Davis advised FOX 13, “I advised them (the Threshers), ‘I don’t know if Layla goes to be as much as the problem subsequent yr.’”
Repper and the entire workforce needed to ship Layla for one closing journey to dwelling plate through the Friday recreation to rejoice her retirement. They even ready a cake for the bat canine after she retrieved her closing bat.
And just like the su-PAW-star that Layla is, the video of her retrieving her closing bat went viral – a full circle second for the 13-year-old good woman!
“To look again on it and have that final day, that final bat, that’s what made it particular,” Davis stated.
Now that Layla will get to take pleasure in her well-deserved retirement, Davis reveals that he’ll hold bringing Layla to Threshers video games as a fan.
