--- title: Cat Crashes Miami Marlins Baseball Game, Becomes Rally Cat description: An adventurous cat found its way into the outfield during a baseball game between the Miami Marlins and the Atlanta Braves. canonical: https://time.com/4736478/rally-cat-miami-marlins-baseball-game/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-04-12T20:09:03.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:42:44.831Z og:title: Watch This Playful Cat Venture On the Field at Baseball Game og:description: Meet the Miami Marlins' "rally cat" og:url: https://time.com/4736478/rally-cat-miami-marlins-baseball-game/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43e8ceefb32e39a3/6988c2787cdbacbfeed57da5/miami-marlins-rally-cat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: Atlanta Braves v Miami Marlins og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch This Playful Cat Venture On the Field at Baseball Game twitter:description: Meet the Miami Marlins' "rally cat" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43e8ceefb32e39a3/6988c2787cdbacbfeed57da5/miami-marlins-rally-cat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch an Adventurous Cat Bravely Venture Onto the Baseball Field During a Game > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Mark Brown/Getty Images) Mark Brown—Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Apr 12, 2017 8:09 PM UTC On Tuesday night, an [intrepid feline](http://time.com/4714823/cats-very-social-study/) went where few cats have gone before: on the outfield of Marlins Park in Miami, while [a baseball game](http://time.com/4694985/umpire-banned-excerpt/) was in full swing. The kitty promptly captured the hearts of [Marlins fans](http://ideas.time.com/2012/10/10/are-sports-fans-reallyout-of-control/), who didn’t seem to mind that the game needed a brief delay, as the small gray cat ran across the field, scaled the stadium wall, and eventually settled down on top of the Marlin Park Home Run sculpture. Marlins fans weren’t the only ones who were enamored with the cat — whoever was running the Marlins’ Twitter account promptly christened the feline as the team’s #rallycat, while the Marlins Park account live-tweeted its escapades. > [](https://twitter.com/Marlins/status/851975293124345856) > [](https://twitter.com/MarlinsPark/status/851976363393339393) > [](https://twitter.com/MarlinsPark/status/851978295545561088) In fact, the Marlins went so far as to solicit names for their new mascot. > [](https://twitter.com/Marlins/status/851968560448638977) Eventually, the cat left Marlins Park, but the Marlins would like it to know that it’s welcome back at any time. > [](https://twitter.com/Marlins/status/852002789991608320) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4736478/rally-cat-miami-marlins-baseball-game/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4736478/rally-cat-miami-marlins-baseball-game/"},"headline":"Watch an Adventurous Cat Bravely Venture Onto the Baseball Field During a Game","datePublished":"2017-04-12T20:09:03.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:42:44.831Z","description":"Meet the Miami Marlins' \"rally cat\"","url":"https://time.com/4736478/rally-cat-miami-marlins-baseball-game/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sports topic","animals","viral","Baseball","MLB"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43e8ceefb32e39a3/6988c2787cdbacbfeed57da5/miami-marlins-rally-cat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt43e8ceefb32e39a3/6988c2787cdbacbfeed57da5/miami-marlins-rally-cat.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Atlanta Braves v Miami Marlins","caption":"Atlanta Braves v Miami Marlins","creditText":"Mark Brown—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4736478/rally-cat-miami-marlins-baseball-game/","name":"Watch an Adventurous Cat Bravely Venture Onto the Baseball Field During a Game"}}]}] ```