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Watch A High-Stakes Playoff Baseball Game Get Interrupted By…A Squirrel

Yesterday’s 3-2 Phillies win over the Cardinals was a tense affair, the type of game that knots fans’ stomachs, induces wild mood swings, and generally does its best to destroy the mental health of those with a rooting interest. And none of that means a thing to squirrels:

Maybe the rodent’s mad dash was for the best – for a brief time, people could calm their nerves by focusing on a squirrel instead of an unbearably pressure-dilled event over which they had no control. But the ones who really threw themselves into it by reaching out at the squirrel as it ran by the stands: The 700 Level’s Enrico Campitelli didn’t understand them (“those things have teeth and probably diseases”), nor did our Tim Burke. We guess it goes to show how hard fan interference is to stop: if they’ll try to get their hands on a squirrel, how will you stop them from pursuing a ball rolling by?

RELATED: The next day, at the same ballpark, squirrels struck again.

And that wasn’t the only noteworthy animal subplot from Busch Stadium yesterday: CSN Philly’s Jim Salisbury informs us that the Budweiser Clydesdales made an appearance too, and left the visiting team with a parting gift of sorts.

“How about the horses?” a giddy [Shane] Victorino said in the clubhouse after the Phillies’ 3-2 win. “They went around a second time and crapped all by our dugout. It smelled awful. I think they did it on purpose. There was poo everywhere.”

“There was poo everywhere.” If Shane Victorino ever writes a book (or if I ever write a book, for that matter), the title is taken care of.