Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium went pretty much how you’d expect for a game between a first-place team and a last-place team. Except for the raccoons.
Two baby raccoons wandered into the outfield during the Dodgers-Rockies game and immediately became the main characters. The broadcast caught them just sort of existing out there, oblivious to the fact that Shohei Ohtani had just hit his 300th career home run a few innings earlier. A genuinely weird sight, even by Los Angeles standards.
Social media, naturally, lost its mind.
“Cute enough to make me consider a career change to raccoon whisperer, but I’m still terrified of trash cans,” one fan posted. Another called them “nature’s tiny bandits fresh out of fluff academy.” Someone else simply demanded: “Send them to me.”
One fan noted the irony: “Such a Colorado thing to happen in LA.”
And maybe that was a sign. Because the Rockies, who came into the game 37-55 and looking every bit like a team trying to lose on purpose, actually won. They trailed 3-1 going into the eighth inning and then just … didn’t lose. Colorado scored three runs in the frame, two of them off Dodgers errors, and held on for a 4-3 win. Jordan Romano shut the door in the ninth.
The Ohtani milestone that almost got overshadowed
Here’s the thing about the raccoons stealing the show: Ohtani hit home run No. 300 in the first inning. Solo shot. A two-way superstar doing superstar things. And the raccoons still ended up being the thing people talked about. That’s a weird flex for a couple of animals who probably got chased out of a trash can 20 minutes prior.
The Dodgers still have a 60-33 record and a massive lead in the NL West. This loss doesn’t change anything. But it does mean they got punked by both the Rockies and some baby raccoons on the same night.
As for those raccoons? No word on whether they were adopted or just politely escorted out of the stadium. But the internet has already claimed them.
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