{"id":441049,"date":"2026-08-23T06:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441049\/"},"modified":"2026-08-23T06:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-23T06:44:09","slug":"baby-wanders-onto-field-during-minnesota-united-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/441049\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby wanders onto field during Minnesota United match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minnesota United was putting the final touches on a 5-1 blowout win over the Earthquakes on Saturday when the MLS match was interrupted by cuteness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, there\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlssoccer.com\/news\/baby-pitch-invader-crashes-san-jose-earthquakes-minnesota-united\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a baby on the field<\/a>,\u201d Apple TV commentator Kyndra de St. Aubin said from PayPal Park in San Jose, Calif.<\/p>\n<p>A toddler had escaped seats along the sideline and wandered onto the field in the 91st minute, with a stadium staff member shown picking up the smiling kid near the 18-yard box and delivering him back to an adult. A woman who grabbed him appeared to say, \u201cI\u2019m so sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2026\/08\/22\/minnesota-united-smashes-winless-skid-with-5-1-victory-in-san-jose\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">RELATED: Minnesota United smashes winless skid with 5-1 victory over Earthquakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the game all but over, Loons head coach Cameron Knowles wondered what the commotion was and looked away to see it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, man, it\u2019s a little bit too early to get a lifetime ban from a stadium,\u201d Knowles joked.<\/p>\n<p>The MNUFC social media team also had some fun with it, sharing a post-mach graphic headlined: \u201cLike talking money for a baby.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minnesota United was putting the final touches on a 5-1 blowout win over the Earthquakes on Saturday when&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[32885,88,90,89,1083,127],"class_list":["post-441049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-minnesota-united-fc","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}