fan are letting cardboard cutout of their favorite furry mascot take their place in the rack .
In normal times ( call up those ? ) , the dog twenty-four hour period of summer mean major conference baseball player were entering months of scant off days and glutinous temperatures .
This year , it ’s a trivial different . The Major League Baseball season , shortened by the COVID-19 pandemic , has been underway for only a month — without fans in the stands . But this clock time , the wienerwurst day include real dogs ! Well , kind of .
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The golf-club provide their diehard fan the hazard to buy cardboard cutouts of themselves to sit down in the bowl during game . fortuitously , for the consider use of millions , some of those good the great unwashed submitted their click and cats , and those cutout were dutifully placed in their seats at Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia , Citi Field in New York , Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles , and other ballpark around the country .
In fact , the Los Angeles Dodgers filled a department of seats almost entirely with canine cutouts . The teamencouraged fansto give the $ 149 to secure the cutouts of their dogs and guy , pledging to donate the proceeds to the team ’s openhearted grounding .
Dogs of the non - service variety have become increasingly common at major - conference approximate range as team have host several “ bark at the park ” night over the past several class . At least one - third of the teams hosted eventslast season . Just think , in the summer months , you may share a raging blackguard with your own hot — never intellect .
new ballgame are n’t without peril , though , even for the cardboard dogs . sooner in August at the New York Mets ’ Citi Field , Atlanta Braves veracious fieldsman Adam Duvall shoot an opposite - field shoot over the right - field fence , strike a cardboard dog square .
Funnily enough , the dog pictured on the cardboard is Willow , belonging to Mets utility player Jeff McNeil . He actuallyadoptedWillow during an issue at Citi Field last year , taking a break of serve from pregame batting practice to carry his wife .
The lesson here seems pretty mere : The best path to support your favorite team this year is toadopt a dog , snap a picture , and send their cardboard resemblance off to your favorite stadium .
