The Purrfect Tale of Baseball’s Rally Cat (Re-Air)

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4.6 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Cats made many cameos in sports in 2021, from a stray at Yankee Stadium to a dangling feline in Miami. But ESPN’s Liz Merrill has the original wild and twisting tale of the St. Louis Cardinals’ Rally Cat. When the kitten crawled onto the field during the bottom of the sixth in a 2017 game against the Kansas City Royals, Yadier Molina proceeded to hit a go-ahead grand slam on the very next pitch. Hear the story…once again…of the all-out search that followed for the Rally Cat, and the heated fight over where it should live. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey guys, it is Pablo. We're taking a much-deserved break this holiday week on ESPN Daily. We miss you
0:06.6	already. Trust us. But do not worry, we're keeping your feed freshly stocked with some of our
0:13.3	favorite episodes from this entire year. Like this one in particular, we first brought you in
0:18.9	September from our friend Liz Merrill.
0:20.9	And it's about the search for a legend, honestly.
0:24.5	A legend who went missing on the very night, he made his major league debut.
0:30.6	It is Monday, December 27th.
0:34.2	This is the SPN Daily.
0:41.3	Music This is the SPN Daily. So Liz Merrill, the story you've reported starts with a search party, a search party that's fanny across a St. Louis Park in the middle of the night.
0:50.4	Can you just set the scene for me?
0:54.2	It was a hot, humid night in early August.
0:59.2	It's around midnight.
1:02.4	And there's no one around
1:04.8	except for this five-person search party.
1:09.5	One or two of them have flashlights, but otherwise they're using their
1:12.2	cell phone flashlights. They have a set of traps, and they have copious amounts of tuna juice.
1:22.0	They are basically rooting through this area in downtown St. Louis, close to the ballpark, which has abundant
1:32.6	plants and trees and plenty of places to hide.
1:40.5	What are they looking for, Liz?
1:43.7	They are looking for a very special cat
1:47.0	who helped the Cardinals win
1:49.5	a really important baseball game in August
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