{"id":3260,"date":"2025-08-26T11:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/squirrel-gets-own-trading-card-after-crashing-baseball-game\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T11:04:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T11:04:38","slug":"squirrel-gets-own-trading-card-after-crashing-baseball-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/26\/squirrel-gets-own-trading-card-after-crashing-baseball-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Squirrel gets own trading card after crashing baseball game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-08-26 11:04:36<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A squirrel is getting its own Topps trading card.<BR><br \/>\nThe furry star caused a stir when it ran onto the field during a baseball game between the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox on Friday (22.08.25), which caused a halt in play at Yankee Stadium.<BR><br \/>\nNow, Toops has confirmed over the weekend that a new Topps Now card has been created to honour the intruder.<BR><br \/>\nThe card &#8211; which was listed for $8.99 and had already sold out by Monday (25.08.25) &#8211; reads: &#8220;It&#8217;s nuts!<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Furry friend takes mound at Yankee Stadium.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nYaknees pitcher Max Fried was on the mound when the squirrel ran out, and he has revealed his initial thoughts in the moment.<BR><br \/>\nHe told MLB.com: &#8220;That&#8217;s the first time it&#8217;s happened to me. My first reaction was, &#8216;Don&#8217;t do anything that might embarrass you.&#8217;<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;I thought it was just going to run around, but it came straight to me and went in the little hole I created on the mound.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nIn footage from the game, Fried and the animal can be seen having a stare-down.<BR><br \/>\nHe added: &#8220;At one point, I think I just said, &#8216;OK, buddy, let&#8217;s go&#8217;. He just did his thing. It&#8217;s definitely a little strange, but it&#8217;s all in good fun.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nPlay was able to resume once the critter reached the foul zone, while the squirrel was last seen leaving through a chain-link fence near the scoreboard.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-08-26 11:04:36 A squirrel is getting its own Topps trading card. The furry star caused a stir when it ran onto the field during a baseball game between the New&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3261,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3262,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3260\/revisions\/3262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}