{"id":751837,"date":"2026-07-09T04:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751837\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T04:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T04:10:10","slug":"baby-raccoons-steal-spotlight-at-dodger-stadium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/751837\/","title":{"rendered":"Baby raccoons steal spotlight at Dodger Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Thursday, July 9, 2026 2:00AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Baby raccoons steal the show at Dodger Stadium\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Two baby raccoons briefly stole the spotlight from Shohei Ohtani before the Dodgers&#8217; game against the Colorado Rockies Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Video of the two raccoons went viral on social media after they were spotted walking and bumping their heads below the outfield wall padding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The game announcers said personnel went to safely retrieve the raccoons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The animals&#8217; appearance came during a milestone night for Ohtani, who hit his 300th career home run during the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Despite Ohtani&#8217;s achievement, the Dodgers lost 4-3 to the Rockies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The raccoons&#8217; unexpected visit provided a memorable moment for fans, even as the Dodgers came up short on the scoreboard.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Thursday, July 9, 2026 2:00AM LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; Two baby raccoons briefly stole the spotlight from Shohei&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":751838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[322451,79,201],"class_list":["post-751837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-322451","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/751838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}