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 improper type of responsibility on the baseball discipline.
The Clearwater Threshers’ latest bat canine, 10-month-old yellow Labrador Lucy Could, is the sister of the workforce’s earlier bat canine, Layla.
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And the pooch made certain her debut on Friday, August 23, was as memorable and messy as doable!
Movies of Lucy Could’s debut have been going viral on-line. As a matter of truth, the video ESPN uploaded on TikTok has nearly 1,000,000 likes and eight.5 million views.
Throughout her viral debut, Lucy Could was despatched to retrieve a bat. However as a substitute, ran across the discipline and into the opposing workforce’s dugout.
After an unsuccessful try, Lucy Could was despatched again to the sector to retrieve one other bat. Nevertheless, she went again to working across the discipline, however this time with a shock!
It is perhaps her inexperience or her first-day jitters! However Lucy Could, as a substitute 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 Could was performing within the discipline as the gang began cheering for her.
After Lucy did her enterprise, her proprietor, Andrew Davis received her again over to the Threshers’ dugout. In the meantime, the workforce’s promotions and sport entertaining supervisor, Dominic Repper, cleaned up after the pooch.
Andrew Davis, Lucy Could’s proprietor, tells WTVT-TV, “When she squatted, I positively went into panic mode.” He continues, “I believe the phrase my fiancée and I used was ‘mortified.’”
“We type of had a sense that one thing particular would occur along with her and that it could be a enjoyable occasion, however I don’t assume we may have imagined that it could get taken to that stage,” Repper mentioned.
After the incident, the Clearwater Threshers defended Lucy Could and ensured everybody that she is “1000% holding her job”.
“Couldn’t be mad at this candy face if we tried,” the workforce wrote on X (previously Twitter). “Lucy Could is just 10 months outdated! She jumped into coaching when Layla needed to step down, and though she doesn’t have it fairly proper, she is 1000% KEEPING her job.”
The workforce additionally mentioned, “She’s received numerous time till our dwelling opener in April, and we all know she’ll get it excellent quickly”.
