Sometimes, a baseball team needs do something wacky or weird to change the atmosphere, particularly to stop a slide.
Meet the San Diego Padres and their conundrum: They went on a skid after their super-busy trade deadline, and they’ve lost four of their last six. How do you get out of that?
But in the middle of their struggles, they’ve tried to change their fortunes by putting a black panther in their dugout.
(Not a real one. What did you expect? Really?)
Although they lost on Thursday to the Washington Nationals, maybe they’re on to something, and fans are starting to dig it, too.
Check out the dugout panther: